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Definition of Refer |
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Refer
To carry or send back. 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. 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 have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary. To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote. To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election. 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. Related Definitions: Ability, Aid, An, And, Another, Any, Appeal, Apply, Assign, As, Attention, Author, Away, Back, Beggar, Betake, By, Bill, Capacity, Carry, Cause, Class, Commissioner, Committee, Court, Decision, Dictionary, Direct, Election, Electrical, Elsewhere, Employer, Explanation, Fact, Figure, Footnote, For, Ground, Guarantee, Have, He, Hence, His, In, Information, Inquiry, Integrity, Investigation, Kind, Late, Law, Like, Make, Matter, Mental, Mind, Motive, Of, Officer, One, Or, Over, Pass, Pecuniary, Phenomena, Place, Point, Preacher, Process, Question, Rational, Reason, Recourse, Refer, Reference, Referred, Relate, Relation, Respect, Self, Send, Source, Story, Student, Superior, The, Thought, To, Treatment, Tribunal, Truth, Under |
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Refer Quotations
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. Mason Cooley As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. Mason Cooley It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. Dan Quayle Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. Amelia Earhart |
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Refer Translations
refer in German is weise, Bezug nehmen, berichten, verweisen refer in Latin is refero retuli relatum, revoco refer in Spanish is referirse |
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