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English Dictionary: Reference	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Reference
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reference n 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" Synonym(s): mention, reference 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" Synonym(s): citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" Synonym(s): reference point, point of reference, reference a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" Synonym(s): reference book, reference, reference work, book of facts 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" Synonym(s): character, reference, character reference 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" Synonym(s): reference, denotation, extension the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" Synonym(s): reference, consultation 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" Synonym(s): reference, source (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored Synonym(s): address, computer address, reference 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" v refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" [syn: reference, cite]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reference \Ref"erence\ (r?f"?r-ens), n. [See {Refer}.] 1. The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference* to a chart for quidance. 2. That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book. 3. Relation; regard; respect. Something that hath a reference to my state. --Shak. 4. One who, or that which, is referred to. Specifically; (a) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another. (b) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred. 5. (Law) (a) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision. (b) (Equity) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. 6. Appeal. [R.] [bd]Make your full reference.[b8] --Shak. {Reference Bible}, a Bible in which brief explanations, and references to parallel passages, are printed in the margin of the text.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
reference {pointer}