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REFERENCE

Definition:

1. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: mention
   
   
2. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: citation, acknowledgment, credit, mention, quotation
   
   
3. [noun] an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
   Synonyms: point, point of
   
   
4. [noun] a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"
   Synonyms: book, work, book of facts
   
   
5. [noun] 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 to often answered evasively"
   Synonyms: character, character
   
   
6. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: denotation, extension
   
   
7. [noun] the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
   Synonyms: consultation
   
   
8. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: source
   
   
9. [noun] 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"
   
   
10. [verb] refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work"
    Synonyms: cite
    
    

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Related Words:

• allusion
• retrospection
• name-dropping
• photo credit
• cross-reference, cross-index
• benchmark, bench mark
• landmark
• lubber's line, lubber line, lubber's mark, lubber's point
• standard, criterion, measure, touchstone
• target, mark
• white line
• buoy
• cookbook, cookery book
• instruction book
• source book
• wordbook
• handbook, enchiridion, vade mecum
• directory
• annual, yearbook
• atlas, book of maps, map collection
• encyclopedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, cyclopaedia

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