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noun : REFERENCE
Source:WordNet 3.1
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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" ;
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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" ;
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3. (
) an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" ;
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4. (
) a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" ;
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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 too often answered evasively" ;
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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" ;
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7. (
) the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" ;
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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" ;
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9. (
) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored ;
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10. (
) 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 : REFERENCE
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" ;
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