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reference English

Meaning reference meaning

What does reference mean?
Definitions in simple English

reference Noun

— A reference is something that can be compared to. When making your model, use the model I created as a reference.

reference Verb

— When you reference something, you cite it as a source. Reference the dictionary for the definition of this word. — When you reference something, you mention it.

reference

— noun (= mention) a remark that calls attention to something or someone she made frequent mention of her promotion there was no mention of it the speaker made several references to his wife — noun (= citation, acknowledgment, mention) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage 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 — noun (= reference work) a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic — noun an indicator that orients you generally it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved — noun (= character, character reference) 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 too often answered evasively — noun (= extension) 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 — noun the act of referring or consulting reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer — noun 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 — noun (= source) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to he carried an armful of references back to his desk he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation — verb refer to he referenced his colleagues' work — noun (= address) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored

Synonyms reference synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as reference?

reference English » English

mention allusion citation testimonial quotation consultation cite character relation denotation source recommendation information acknowledgment relationship reference point refer point of reference mark inquiry credit connection character reference certificate address token testimony talk standard sign regard referral references reference work reference book refer to quote proof instance index frame of reference extension evidence discussion description deposition datum criterion concern computer address

Topics reference topics

What do people use reference to talk about?
Language and thought Think Opinion

Philosophy

Conjugation reference conjugation

How do you conjugate reference?

reference · verb

Examples reference examples

How do I use reference in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Perry is mistaken in thinking that Emmet's theory was constructed without reference to Newtonian physics.
This reference is valuable for my research.
With reference to the invoice No.56789 which was due last month, we have not yet received your remittance.
He made reference to my book.
I don't have a good reference book to hand.
It is virtually impossible to discuss the Thai Royal Family in English without offending native Thais: the special honorific forms of reference that exist in Thai simply have no counterparts in English.
At check-in, please show a picture identification and the document you gave for reference at reservation time.
A more convenient and detailed reference grammar, I have yet to meet.
A dictionary is a reference book.
This easter egg is a reference to one of the developer's previous games.

Movie subtitles

What is that reference?
You spent most of your time in the study, moving to the conservatory and then to the library to place the pistol and to get a reference book.
So we cross-reference the two?
Did John D, Lee report to you at any time after this massacre what had been done at the massacre and if so, what did you reply to him in reference thereto?
He gave us the book. for reference purposes.
I thought after my swell reference about you, I deserved a drink.
I have reference to a mark on the ball.
Your reference to the Jews might have been more violent.
But mark them for future reference.
I'm entitled to a letter of reference.
Twenty-three pages compiled from a dozen reference books.
Based on reference books 20 years old.
Those are Professor Gurkakoff's reference books.
In a day or two, you'll talk to me about certain installations in the vicinity of both Balboa and Cristobal with particular reference to antiaircraft emplacements railway guns and ammunition dumps.
Because they were inaccurate and had a wrong reference point.
Ask the sergeant for a character reference. He knows me.
I'm sorry, but we must have one business reference.
Yes, I'm sure, so I'd rather you didn't say that I gave her husband as a reference.
The cook's letter of reference.
A reference to the Jewish people.
Reference to the father's police record may tend to undermine the child's parental respect.
And here, reference from the Duke de Polignac.
I make a nice living, too, chasing ghosts of the past, if you'll pardon the poetic reference.
And, in the meantime, you changed systems of reference.
What did you have reference to?
I heard this gentleman make a disparaging reference to Vichy.
For instance, I could find no reference to my wife's birthday in the in the society news.
I know that, but you haven't got any establishment. or terms of reference or anything - anything old-fashioned like that?

News and current affairs

The post-WWII period stands as a reference point in America's collective memory, but it was in all likelihood an aberration.
Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny trade issues.
First, capital requirements should be set as a straightforward ratio of common equity to total assets, thereby abandoning all reference to banks' own risk-management models.
Germany and other governments called for the reference to the slowdown to be deleted.
Then we can define terrorism with reference to all these variables, but without making any one of them decisive.
In other words, above a low level of sufficiency, peoples' happiness levels are determined much less by their absolute income than by their income relative to some reference group.
This concept now appears in the toolbox of every economist, is taught in all classes on growth, and serves as a reference in all works on the macro economy.
Indeed, we can expect his new theoretical framework to become a reference point in a decade or two.
So the rules would have to be set with reference to each member state's cyclically adjusted fiscal position (for which the OECD already produces estimates).
Today, however, the EU is the last point of reference as far as prosperity is concerned.
Such a reference, it is said, would run afoul of the common European constitutional tradition of state neutrality in matters of religion.
But the opposite is true: a reference to God is both constitutionally permissible and politically imperative.
In between are states like Germany, whose constitutional preamble makes an explicit reference to God, or Ireland, where the preamble refers to the Holy Trinity.
The refusal to make a reference to God is based on the false argument that confuses secularism with neutrality or impartiality.
For the first time, precise reference is made to people liable to be a threat to US security.
In 2011, the National Research Council and the US Federal Judicial Center issued the 1,016-page third edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
Hollande's reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.
In other words, the invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent increase in the rhetoric of democracy in the Middle East, may have changed frames of reference about the status quo.
But are its terms of reference useful today, as the West faces the simultaneous challenges of the Islamic State in the Middle East and a revisionist Russia?
But soon Switzerland became a reference point for German leaders, and then an explicit and dangerous model.
And, sooner rather than later, it needs to define precisely, and with reference to understood and accepted principles, what its claims actually are.
If one takes the EU as one's term of reference, social solidarity between member states would appear to be not that different from social solidarity between American states.

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