Referee vs. Reference

Referee vs. Reference — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Referee and Reference

Refereenoun

(sports) An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.

The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.

Referencenoun

A relationship or relation (to something).

Refereenoun

A person who settles a dispute.

Referencenoun

A measurement one can compare to.

Refereenoun

A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone.

Your application, along with letters from three referees, should be received by January 31.

Referencenoun

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.

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Refereenoun

An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.

Referencenoun

A person who provides this information; a referee.

Refereeverb

To act as a referee.

He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature.

Referencenoun

A reference work.

Refereenoun

(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

Referencenoun

(semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.

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Refereenoun

someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

Referencenoun

(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.

Refereenoun

an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case

Referencenoun

(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.

Refereeverb

be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

Referencenoun

(programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.

Refereeverb

evaluate professionally a colleague's work

Referencenoun

A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.

Referencenoun

(obsolete) Appeal.

Referenceverb

To provide a list of references for (a text).

You must thoroughly reference your paper before submitting it.

Referenceverb

To refer to, to use as a reference.

Reference the dictionary for word meanings.

Referenceverb

To mention, to cite.

In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent.

Referenceverb

(programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.

The given pointer will reference the actual generated data.

Referencenoun

a remark that calls attention to something or someone;

she made frequent mention of her promotionthere was no mention of itthe speaker made several references to his wife

Referencenoun

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;

the student's essay failed to list several important citationsthe acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a bookthe article includes mention of similar clinical cases

Referencenoun

an indicator that orients you generally;

it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved

Referencenoun

a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts;

he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic

Referencenoun

a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability;

requests for character references are all to often answered evasively

Referencenoun

the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to;

the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos

Referencenoun

the act of referring or consulting;

reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer

Referencenoun

a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;

he carried an armful of references back to his deskhe spent hours looking for the source of that quotation

Referencenoun

the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to;

he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes

Referenceverb

refer to;

he referenced his colleagues' work