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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
refer
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The citations also refer to the provisions on which the measure is based.
▪ We also refer to one factor of production as labor and to the other as capital.
▪ Pyrenees may also refer to small ewes' milk cheeses that are produced in the same area.
▪ Such brochures also refer to two other types of valuation or survey.
▪ In some chapters the authors also refer back to earlier volumes in the series for a more detailed discussion of theoretical issues.
▪ I also refer you to the Sub-Regional Engineer's letter reply of 2 March 1990.
▪ Police in this country will also refer your friend to rape crisis centres and victim support agencies.
▪ Flat-footed and high arches also refer to foot type.
back
▪ This saves them having to refer back and forth between their message and your answer.
▪ Note the Heading and then refer back to the localiser.
▪ Here, we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter.
▪ I refer back to my earlier remarks about classroom organisation.
▪ In some chapters the authors also refer back to earlier volumes in the series for a more detailed discussion of theoretical issues.
▪ Most of these refer back to the content of the video but repeat viewing is not suggested.
▪ We will refer back to these examples later in the book.
often
▪ Advertisements for houses for sale often refer to their proximity to Buzz, Go and EasyJet destinations.
▪ Students and teachers often refer to the academies as an extended family.
▪ Writers often refer to uneven development between sectors, for example, or between firms within a sector.
▪ It is interesting to note that we often refer to the training rather than education of language teachers.
only
▪ Yet these painted colours refer only rather loosely to the ten colour-terms listed in the text.
▪ Instead. these people only refer to farmers when there is news like a food scare to react to.
▪ The numbers refer only to mergers of large companies where assets worth over 5 are acquired through the merger.
▪ Which need not refer only to Pericles, though the historian can not have forgotten him.
▪ I will only refer to 2 projects in the short time available.
▪ Estimates refer only to the cost of allocative inefficiency.
▪ For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image, there being no true face behind the mask.
▪ Such relations only refer to the name of the referenced module.
please
▪ Hotel Amenities Please refer to page 154 for a guide to the bedroom amenities and public facilities of the hotels featured here.
▪ Please refer to the back cover of this brochure for more details.
▪ Please refer to the individual hotel descriptions for full details.
▪ Please refer to our tariff of charges for details of these services.
▪ Please refer to the catalogue for the full range of products available.
to
▪ The first of these we might refer to as appraisal.
▪ The last component of the rainbow coalition that I want to refer to is feminism.
▪ The media are obviously hard up for stories because they seem interested in what they refer to as our overcrowding problems here.
▪ The exemption you refer to certainly needs clarification.
▪ The habitat I refer to, as you may have guessed, is the garden.
▪ What does all this refer to in the third sentence?
▪ This political response is what I refer to as labourism.
▪ Secondly, it causes the lights to be surrounded by a ring of light, which I refer to as their halo.
■ NOUN
case
▪ But he has now refused either to grant the long-expected pardon or refer the case back to the Court of Appeal.
▪ Our discussion will refer particularly to the case in Fig. 24.2.
▪ I refer to the case of Mustapha Akkawi, who was killed after being tortured in prison just over a week ago.
▪ Attempts are also being made to refer the more difficult cases to foster families.
▪ The judge refused to refer the case back to magistrates.
▪ It can not refer to individual cases.
dispute
▪ Consider the case of two people who refer a dispute to an arbitrator.
▪ Normal practice is to refer the matters in dispute to an independent accountant.
friend
▪ Police in this country will also refer your friend to rape crisis centres and victim support agencies.
gentleman
▪ I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago.
▪ I refer, gentlemen, to the developing decline and fall of the Galactic Empire.
letter
▪ The vendor should be required to refer in the disclosure letter to the reason why the documents have been disclosed.
matter
▪ I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record.
▪ It was finally decided to refer the matter to the departmental assemblies.
▪ The supervisor must then refer the matter to the court which may make an order cancelling or varying the treatment requirement.
▪ You said that you would refer the matter to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
▪ How can we refer this matter?
▪ Of course, the parameters that determine the drop's energy refer to nuclear matter and not to any familiar liquid.
▪ Normal practice is to refer the matters in dispute to an independent accountant.
minister
▪ The Minister refused to refer a complaint to the committee and the complainant sought mandamus.
numbers
▪ The numbers refer only to mergers of large companies where assets worth over 5 are acquired through the merger.
▪ Real numbers refer to a mathematical idealization rather than to any actual physically objective quantity.
▪ The numbers in her text refer to footnotes in which she spears the novelist with chapter and verse.
▪ Numbers to the right of each row refer to the nucleotide position, numbers to the left refer to amino acids.
▪ Page numbers refer to this brochure.
▪ All mandibular numbers in the tables refer to half mandibles, as for maxillae.
section
▪ To rectify a problem you should refer to Section 6 - Design Change System.
▪ This bizarre combat is a very dangerous one - refer to the Profiles section.
▪ For further information on the Design Change System, refer to Section 6 of this manual.
▪ For further information on Issues and Products, refer to Section 9 of this manual.
▪ Both letters refer to a small section of between the end of the footway and the start of the flood bank proper.
term
▪ In the present context, we are using these terms to refer to phonetic characteristics of syllables.
▪ The various terms refer to the types of oar used, or the number of strokers involved.
▪ A joint communiqué issued after the meetings was couched in general terms and did not refer to the cessation of hostilities.
▪ To what, then, might the term feminine economy refer?
▪ Both terms refer to styles of depicting the arms of spouses on a single shield.
▪ Using the terms that more accurately refer to the present career realities, these people have all turned themselves into businesses.
▪ We shall use the term secondary radiation to refer to radiation coming from or absorbed in a plant.
▪ These terms usually refer to a public company whose shares were bought up by a small group.
word
▪ I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word.
▪ To whom could her words refer?
▪ We do not, for example, tend to have words which refer to both sentient beings and to events.
▪ The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
▪ Formerly, the Anglo-Saxon words were used to refer to both the meat and the animals.
■ VERB
use
▪ In the present context, we are using these terms to refer to phonetic characteristics of syllables.
▪ It can be used to refer to some one who is physically or temperamentally very ugly: a real MEESkait.
▪ Strictly speaking, this should be used to refer to an auditory sensation experienced by the hearer.
▪ These are later used to refer to specific citations in the text.
▪ A demonstrative is used to refer to a temporal aspect.
▪ It also explains how we can use a name to refer literally to things that bear that name.
▪ In practice, the word seems to be used mostly to refer to animal sonar.
▪ It was Adam Smith, interestingly, who first used industry to refer to manufacturing and other productive activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Did he refer to the high standards of social protection in this country?
▪ Only ten refer - usually more briefly - to their elderly parents, and only eight to their own ageing.
▪ The commanders can not actually see what Lord Raglan intends to refer to.
▪ The exemption you refer to certainly needs clarification.
▪ We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming.
▪ What does all this refer to in the third sentence?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refer

Refer \Re*fer"\, v. i.

  1. To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

    In suits . . . it is to refer to some friend of trust.
    --Bacon.

  2. To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.

    Of those places that refer to the shutting and opening the abyss, I take notice of that in Job.
    --Bp. Burnet.

  3. To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.

  4. To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

    Syn: To allude; advert; suggest; appeal.

    Usage: Refer, Allude, Advert. We refer to a thing by specifically and distinctly introducing it into our discourse. We allude to it by introducing it indirectly or indefinitely, as by something collaterally allied to it. We advert to it by turning off somewhat abruptly to consider it more at large. Thus, Macaulay refers to the early condition of England at the opening of his history; he alludes to these statements from time to time; and adverts, in the progress of his work, to various circumstances of peculiar interest, on which for a time he dwells. ``But to do good is . . . that that Solomon chiefly refers to in the text.''
    --Sharp. ``This, I doubt not, was that artificial structure here alluded to.''
    --T. Burnet.

    Now to the universal whole advert: The earth regard as of that whole a part.
    --Blackmore.

Refer

Refer \Re*fer"\ (r[-e]*f[~e]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Referred (r[-e]*f[~e]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Referring.] [F. r['e]f['e]rer, L. referre; pref. re- re- + ferre to bear. See Bear to carry.]

  1. To carry or send back. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

  3. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

    To refer one's self, to have recourse; to betake one's self; to make application; to appeal. [Obs.]

    I'll refer me to all things sense.
    --Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
refer

late 14c., "to trace back (to a first cause), attribute, assign," from Old French referer (14c.) and directly from Latin referre "to relate, refer," literally "to carry back," from re- "back" (see re-) + ferre "carry" (see infer). Meaning "to commit to some authority for a decision" is from mid-15c.; sense of "to direct (someone) to a book, etc." is from c.1600. Related: Referred; referring.

Wiktionary
refer

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To direct the attention of. 2 (context transitive English) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. 3 (context transitive English) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. 4 (rfex) (context intransitive construed with '''to''' English) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to. 5 # (context grammar English) to be referential to another element in a sentence

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WordNet
refer

  1. v. make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite, name]

  2. have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on]

  3. 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"

  4. send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision; "refer a patient to a specialist"; "refer a bill to a committee"

  5. seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes" [syn: consult, look up]

  6. have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' " [syn: denote]

  7. [also: referring, referred]

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Wikipedia
Refer

Refer or Referral may refer to:

  • Reference, a relation of designation or linking between objects
    • Word-sense disambiguation, when a single term may refer to multiple meanings
  • Referral marketing, to personally recommend, endorse, and pass a person to a qualified professional or service
  • Referral (medicine), to transfer a patient's care from one clinician to another
  • Commit (motion), a motion in parliamentary procedure
  • Refer (software), the tr-off preprocessor for citations
  • Rede Ferroviária Nacional, the Portuguese rail network manager
  • REFER – Responsible Energy for European Regions
  • Referral, a form of instant replay in cricket
  • HTTP referer, the address of the webpage of the resource which links to an internet webpage or resource
Refer (software)

refer is a program for managing bibliographic references, and citing them in troff documents. It is implemented as a troff preprocessor.

refer was written by Mike Lesk at Bell Laboratories in or before 1978, and is now available as part of most Unix-like operating systems. A free reimplementation exists as part of the groff package.

refer works with a reference file, a text file where the author lists works to which she might want to refer. One such reference (to an article in a journal in this case) might look like:

%A Brian W. Kernighan
%A Lorinda L. Cherry
%T A System for Typesetting Mathematics
%J J. Comm. ACM
%V 18
%N 3
%D March 1978
%P 151-157
%K eqn

The author then can refer to it in her troff document by listing keywords which uniquely match this reference:

.[
kernighan cherry eqn
.]

refer sees little use today, primarily because troff itself is not used much for longer technical writing that might need software support for reference and citation management.

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Usage examples of "refer".

But it must be understood that this refers to one who had made her abjuration as one manifestly taken in heresy, or as one strongly suspected of heresy, and not to one who has so done as being under only a light suspicion.

As he was an actressy little fellow, he put on a great show of lamentation for the neighbours, referring to the departure from his starving country as a white martyrdom.

So after you have read Metamorphosis, if you are curious about the story of Tasha Yar and Darryl Adin, referred to here, you may decide to seek out Survivors, available wherever Star Trek books are sold.

Adin was referring to the last time he had seen Data-several months ago, after Data had delivered to Adin the personal farewell message prepared by Tasha Yar for the man she loved.

Again and again, in adjudicating the rights and duties of States admitted after 1789, the Supreme Court has referred to the condition of equality as if it were an inherent attribute of the Federal Union.

Lyceum and the other places usually cited, are near the middle--what need have we to go further and seek beyond Place, admitting as we do that we refer in every instance to a place?

As a result, those nerve fibers which secrete acetylcholine are referred to as cholinergic nerves and those which secrete norepinephrine are adrenergic nerves.

In the volume referred to, it was also related how Peter Bell, an old hermit, had been discovered by means of the Prescott aeroplane, and restored to his brother, a wealthy mining magnate.

It has been proposed that these words refer to a sort of alchemy for farming, and that therefore agrichemicals are some especial sort of manure.

The interested reader should refer to the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress on Alcoholism held in London in 1909.

Steven had used to refer to the alembic of transformation in which he had locked Jason, but that connection was too thin to build much on.

Since the anagogical or mystical reading, however, must refer to what is neither past nor future but transcendent of time and eternal, neither in this place nor in that, but everywhere, in all, now and forever, the fourth level of meaning would seem to be that in death -- or in this world of death -- is eternal life.

For the ordinary history of the popes, their life and death, their residence and absence, it is enough to refer to the ecclesiastical annalists, Spondanus and Fleury.

Our third division, advanced paleoliths and neoliths, refers to anomalously old stone tools that resemble the very finely chipped or smoothly polished stone industries of the standard Late Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.

The bishop without answering me referred me to his chancellor, to whom I repeated all I had said to the bishop, but with words calculated to irritate rather than to soften, and certainly not likely to obtain the release of the captain.