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

1. transitive verb. To carry or send back.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive 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.
4. intransitive verb. To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
5. intransitive verb. To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
6. intransitive verb. To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
7. intransitive 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.
8. verb. 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"

9. verb. seek information from

   "You should consult the dictionary"

   "refer to your notes"

   Synonyms: consult

10. verb. have as a meaning

    "`multi-' denotes `many'"

    Synonyms: denote

11. verb. make reference to

    "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention"

    Synonyms: advert, cite, mention, name

12. verb. use a name to designate

    "Christians refer to the mother of Jesus as the Virgin Mary"

13. verb. send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision

    "refer a patient to a specialist"

    "refer a bill to a committee"

14. verb. be relevant to

    "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"

    "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

    Synonyms: concern, pertain, relate, touch

Synonyms

consult, denote, advert, cite, mention, name, concern, pertain, relate, touch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in refer:

freer, frere, rfree

Common word forms

refers, refered, referred, referrer, referable, referment, referring

Words from these letters

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