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refer English

Meaning refer meaning

What does refer mean?
Definitions in simple English

refer Verb

— If you refer to something, you talk or write about it, usually in passing. The teacher referred to some research, but I didn't know what he meant. The media refers to the war as "the troubles". He referred to her only by her first name. — If you refer to a book or other source of information, you check it. You should refer to the dictionary to find the meaning. — If mathx/math refers to mathy/math, mathx/math is about mathy/math. The numbers refer to last year's sales. — If you refer mathx/math to mathy/math, you send mathx/math to mathy/math for help or to be dealt with. He referred me to the science department.

refer

— verb (= mention, name) make reference to His name was mentioned in connection with the invention — verb (= pertain) be relevant to There were lots of questions referring to her talk My remark pertained to your earlier comments — verb think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another This plant can be referred to a known species — verb send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision refer a patient to a specialist refer a bill to a committee — verb (= consult) seek information from You should consult the dictionary refer to your notes — verb (= denote) have as a meaning 'multi-' denotes 'many' — verb use a name to designate Christians refer to the mother of Jesus as the Virgin Mary

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refer English » English

mention cite allude send relate consult concern advert touch on quote bring up touch speak of relegate pertain name direct reference mean look up come to bear on submit route report remit mentor lead index head have-to doe with handle hand over guide entrust design denote commit comment call attribute assign ascribe apply usher tutor turn over turn transport transmit

Topics refer topics

What do people use refer to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Mention

Conjugation refer conjugation

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refer · verb

Examples refer examples

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Simple sentences

I'm going to refer you to a gynaecologist.
Please refer to the tourist information office.
Refer to the Users' Guide if you have any problems.
What does it refer to?
Please refer to paragraph ten.
Writers often refer to a dictionary.
I am using this term in Emmet's sense to refer to the psychological rules of language use.
Her doctor wants to refer her to a specialist.
Refer to the instructions to fix the refrigerator.
In most societies, it's rude to refer to someone in the third person when he or she is standing right there.
Russian adjectives agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns or pronouns to which they refer.
During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life.
Please refer to page ten.
I often refer to the dictionary.
They refer to you as their friends.
I often hear her refer to her childhood.
Refer to my previous article.
I can refer you to a good book on this subject.
People often refer to themselves in the third person when talking to children.
What does that refer to?

Movie subtitles

Whether to refer to him as the mayor or Santa Claus.
We can't refer to him as Santa because then, potentially, people might start fearing that Santa Claus is actually dead.
To that end. Then do we refer to you as Inspector or Detective?
How did you dare refer to Siegfried, my husband?
And I personally would not care to refer them to, uh. to, uh.
Refer them to me.
Do your ecstasies refer to the gown or the girl?
The great Bantion himself was kind enough to refer to my little pamphlet on the subject as his bible.
I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to that will-o'-the-wisp of the bounding main. None other than our friend from Charleston. Captain Rhett Butler!
Chips, and you'll allow me to refer to him as Chips seeing that 37 years ago this autumn he gave me a thrashing for sheer bone laziness.
I refer to his shameless performance for the newspapers.
I refer to the bill he has introduced for the creation of a boys' camp.
What circumstance do you refer to?
Why is it that you sneer every time you refer to this country?
Put that call through! I beg of you! Refer them to me.
I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to that will-o'-the-wisp of the bounding main.
You refer to my father.
Refer to me as the nice light lady.
You sneer every time you refer to this country.
I refer to King Christopher II of Orlandia.
And the number of orange pips refer to the surviving members, a grim warning, hey Holmes?
I refer now to the envelope found in the defendant's leather jacket.
To whom does that refer?
Then do we refer to you as Inspector or Detective?
I refer you to a chapter in the Bible that says about a.
I refer to the question of good and evil.
The nut I refer to is going to be a hard nut to crack.
I do not refer to your authority sir.. but to your promise.
However, I refer to these disquieting rumors in the newspapers.
I suppose you refer to the one which keeps Jim and his sister's money in trust until they reach 30.
I. don't know who you refer to.
In any case, I do not propose to refer to it again.
I refer to your new and unpregnant understudy, Miss Eve Harrington.
Just refer all of Miss Eve Harrington's future requests to me.

News and current affairs

He meant it to refer to Europe's divisions, but in May, ten additional states joined the European Union.
OXFORD - When one state is preponderant in power resources, observers often refer to the situation as hegemonic.
Alternatively, the General Assembly might propose several candidates to the Security Council, from which the Council would choose one to refer back to the Assembly for approval.
It's no wonder that Chinese scholars sometimes refer to today's China era as the new Tang Dynasty.
Economists working on the macro economy, its micro foundations, exogenous and endogenous growth theory, the formation of expectations and problems of information and discrimination all refer back to Phelps.
Moreover, it is significant that the Court agreed, at the request of the parties, to refer the case on appeal to its Grand Chamber.
Public powers should not depend or refer to any religious authority.
And, whereas the Basel standards continue to refer extensively to credit ratings as the basis for assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers, the Dodd-Frank Act in the US moves away from reliance on ratings.
For this reason alone, the IAEA's board must refer Iran to the Security Council for further actions, as required by the agency's charter.
To refer to these people as mutants would surely invite widespread criticism.
Articles 3 and 8 of Jordan's peace treaty with Israel refer explicitly to the refugee problem as one of the major issues still to be resolved, as well as citing the unresolved status of trans-border arrangements and of Jerusalem.
I refer to varying margin requirements and the minimal capital requirements of banks.
In reality, this memory problem concerns ordinary absentmindedness that emerges in the wake of trauma; it does not refer to an inability to remember the trauma itself.
It would seem more accurate to refer to these episodes as speculative epidemics.
At the start of the crisis, many people likened it to 1982 or 1973, which was reassuring, because both dates refer to classical cyclical downturns.
Direct-to-consumer advertisements that refer individuals to screening questionnaires can result in patients suggesting to their doctors that they have bipolar disorder.
We will find out in the coming weeks whether the Cour de Cassation (Court of Final Appeal) will agree to refer the matter to the Council.
The Security Council's decision to refer the situation in Darfur to the ICC prosecutor in March 2005 was itself a major milestone in the battle against impunity.
In this broad sense, organization and management refer to leaders' ability to ensure an accurate inflow and outflow of information for making and implementing decisions.

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