Crossword clues for referring
referring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To carry or send back. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.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.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of refer English)
WordNet
v. make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite, name]
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]
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"
send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision; "refer a patient to a specialist"; "refer a bill to a committee"
seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes" [syn: consult, look up]
have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' " [syn: denote]
See refer
Usage examples of "referring".
Habermas and his associates are referring to tribal societies the way they first existed, not necessarily how they exist now.
A few days ago Captain Carpenter, of the Costa Rica Packet, who is now in Sydney, referring to the navigation in those parts, in the presence of Mr.
We have italicised this passage referring to a map that was made because we have found the name on a map which we give further on.
The passage in the Instructions to, referring to the voyage of the Duyfken, confirmed.
Theopompus: a fragment of the works of, referring to a southern island beyond the known world.
If the reader is referring to some other edition, he will often have to look a little to either side of the line number, so to speak, but he will not be far off and his search will not be difficult.
The years 1594-96 were horrible, from the standpoint of weather, in England, and if the play had been written in 1595, Shakespeare might have been referring to the weather at this time.
He is referring, of course, to the insane jealousy of which Polixenes is the unwitting and undeserved cause.
Many Greek inscriptions have been found here, some referring to the shrine.
The terms Baal and Molech are general terms in the Hebrew scriptures, referring mainly to local gods in the Semitic region, and sometimes to sacred stones.
Jesus would also have been well known, Professor Lemaire argues that the odds on the ossuary really referring to Jesus Christ would be shorter than twenty to one.
If a non-existence in the sense that it is not a thing of Real-being, but belongs to some other Kind of existent, we have still two Principles, one referring directly to the substratum, the other merely exhibiting the relation of the Privation to other things.
Intellectual Nature to the level of the Sense-Kind: their true course is to seek to reduce number to the least possible in the Supreme, simply referring all things to the Second Hypostasis--which is all that exists as it is Primal Intellect and Reality and is the only thing that is good except only for the first Nature--and to recognize Soul as the third Principle, accounting for the difference among souls merely by diversity of experience and character.
As Mark Lehner admits, however, no contemporary text referring to the Sphinx has ever been found.
What they have never suspected is the possibility that they may be confronted here by the ancient Egyptian dualistic way of referring to an earthly counterpart by means of its celestial twin.