 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reference
noun
1: 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" [syn: {mention}]
2: 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" [syn: {citation},
{acknowledgment}, {credit}, {mention}, {quotation}]
3: an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a
reference for comparing the heating and the electrical
energy involved" [syn: {reference point}, {point of
reference}]
4: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he
contributed articles to the basic reference work on that
topic" [syn: {reference book}, {reference work}, {book of
facts}]
5: 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" [syn: {character}, {character
reference}]
6: 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" [syn: {denotation}, {extension}]
7: the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an
encyclopedia produced the answer" [syn: {consultation}]
8: 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" [syn: {source}]
9: 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"
verb: refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" [syn: {cite}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reference \Ref"er*ence\ (r?f"?r-ens), noun [See {Refer}.]
1. The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as,
reference to a chart for guidance.
2. That which refers to something; a specific direction of
the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
3. Relation; regard; respect.
Something that hath a reference to my state. --Shak.
4. One who, or that which, is referred to. Specifically;
(a) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity,
capacity, and the like, of another.
(b) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is
referred.
5. (Law)
(a) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the
judgment of one or more persons for decision.
(b) (Equity) The process of sending any matter, for
inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in
order that he may ascertain facts and report to the
court.
6. Appeal. [R.] ''Make your full reference.'' --Shak.
{Reference Bible}, a Bible in which brief explanations, and
references to parallel passages, are printed in the margin
of the text.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "reference":
acknowledgment, advocacy, advocating, advocation,
affective meaning, allusion, angle, appeal to, applicability,
application, appositeness, aspect, bearing, by-line, case,
certificate of character, certification, character,
character reference, citation, coloring, concern, concernment,
confession, configuration, connection, connotation, consequence,
credential, credentials, credit line, cross reference, cross-refer,
cross-reference, demonstration, denotation, diacritical mark,
direct attention to, direction, drift, effect, eidolon, end stop,
endorsement, essence, example, exemplification, extension, facet,
fashion, feature, figure, force, form, germaneness, gestalt, gist,
grammatical meaning, guise, hint, idea, illustration, image, imago,
impact, implication, import, impression, indication, innuendo,
insinuation, instance, intension, interest, intimation, invoke,
item, letter of introduction, lexical meaning, light, likeness,
lineaments, literal meaning, look, make a cross-reference,
make reference to, manner, materiality, meaning, mention, naming,
notation, note, notification, overtone, particular, patronage,
pertinence, phase, phasis, pith, point, practical consequence,
punctuation, punctuation marks, purport, quotation,
range of meaning, real meaning, recommend, recommendation,
refer to, reference mark, referent, referral, regard, relatedness,
relation, relevance, remark, respect, scope, seeming,
semantic cluster, semantic field, semblance, sense, shape, side,
signature, significance, signification, significatum, signifie,
simulacrum, slant, span of meaning, specification, spirit, stop,
structural meaning, style, substance, sum, sum and substance,
symbolic meaning, tenor, testimonial, tittle, total effect,
totality of associations, trademark, transferred meaning, tribute,
twist, unadorned meaning, undertone, value, view, viewpoint,
voucher, wise
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
reference
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