reference
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noun (English)
1. (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).Examples: "A man is beloued of a man, in that he is a man, but all theſe are farre more eminent and great, when they ſhal proceed from a ſanctified ſpirit, that hath a true touch of Religion, and a reference to God."archaiccountableliteraryuncountable
2. (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.IrelandUKcountableuncountable
3. (often attributive) A reference work.Examples: "reference grammar"; "Reference Dictionary of Linguistics"attributivecountableoftenuncountable
4. (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.countableuncountable
5. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.countableliteraryuncountable
6. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.countableliteraryuncountable
verb (English)
1. (occasionally proscribed) To cite, to use as a reference.Examples: "Reference the dictionary for word meanings."; "The penchant for synthesizing the work of others that pervades British scholarship has been described by one of my cynical American colleagues as “a giant bibliography that is always eating its own tail.” By this he means that cliques of like-minded writers tend to reference each other’s work incessantly."; "Written information is a relatively new phenomenon. Depositing it and being able to reference it centuries later is not common human experience."
2. (sometimes proscribed) To mention, to refer to.Examples: "In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent."; "Humanities institutions specifically reference the work setting for illustrative applications of the unique and significant contributions of the Humanities."; "With the economy characteristic of all African sculpture, these portraits reference individual and social identities simultaneously, so that the image of a king may represent a particular king and all kings; a commemorative mask for a woman, a particular woman and all titled women."proscribedsometimes
3. (programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.Examples: "The given pointer will reference the actual generated data."
Definition source: Wiktionary