reference
Noun
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A remark that calls attention to something or someone (synset 106778981)
"she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife"is a type of: comment, input, remark - a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds informationsubtypes:
- allusion - passing reference or indirect mention
- retrospection - reference to things past
- name-dropping - the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener
same as: mention -
A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage (synset 106776392)
"the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"subtypes:
- photo credit - a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph
- cross-index, cross-reference - a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work
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An indicator that orients you generally (synset 107273000)
"it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"is a type of: indicator - a signal for attracting attentionsubtypes:
- bench mark, benchmark - a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
- landmark - a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
- lubber line, lubber's line, lubber's mark, lubber's point - a fixed line on a ship's compass indicating its heading
- mark, target - a reference point to shoot at
- white line - a white stripe in the middle of a road to mark traffic lanes
- buoy - bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
same as: point of reference, reference point -
A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts (synset 106429241)
"he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"is a type of: book - a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)subtypes:
- cookbook, cookery book - a book of recipes and cooking directions
- instruction book - a book of directions for using or operating some piece of equipment
- source book - a collection of historically important documents published together as a book
- wordbook - a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings)
- enchiridion, handbook, vade mecum - a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location
- directory - an alphabetical list of names and addresses
- annual, yearbook, yearly - a reference book that is published regularly once every year
- atlas, book of maps, map collection - a collection of maps in book form
- cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia - a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
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A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability (synset 106707541)
"requests for character references are all too often answered evasively"is a type of: good word, recommendation, testimonial - something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirablesame as: character, character reference
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The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression;
The class of objects that an expression refers to (synset 105931581)"the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"same as: denotation, extension -
The act of referring or consulting (synset 101266543)
"reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"is a type of: action - something done (usually as opposed to something said)same as: consultation
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A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to (synset 107273332)
"he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"is a type of: publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distributionsame as: source
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(computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored (synset 106367922)
referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresis a type of: code, computer code - (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructionssubtypes:
- argument, parameter - (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- uniform resource locator, universal resource locator, url - the address of a web page on the world wide web
same as: address, computer address -
The relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to (synset 105931946)
"he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"
Verb
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Refer to (synset 201709116)
"he referenced his colleagues' work"same as: cite
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