Dictionary Entry
refer
refer is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To carry or send back. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To carry or send back.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4intransitive verb
To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
- 5intransitive verb
To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
- 6intransitive verb
To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
- 7intransitive verb
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.
- 8verb
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"
- 9verb
seek information from
"You should consult the dictionary"
"refer to your notes"
Synonyms
- 10verb
have as a meaning
"`multi-' denotes `many'"
Synonyms
- 11verb
make reference to
"His name was mentioned in connection with the invention"
- 12verb
use a name to designate
"Christians refer to the mother of Jesus as the Virgin Mary"
- 13verb
send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision
"refer a patient to a specialist"
"refer a bill to a committee"
- 14verb
be relevant to
"There were lots of questions referring to her talk"
"My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
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