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reference

the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"

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"

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"

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"

refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work"

Synonyms:

• acknowledgment,
• advocacy,
• advocating,
• advocation,
• affective meaning,
• allusion,
• angle,
• appeal to,
• applicability,
• application,
• appositeness,
• aspect,
• bearing,
• by-line,
• case,
• certificate of character,
• certification,
• character,
• character reference,
• citation,
• coloring,
• concern,
• concernment,
• confession,
• configuration,
• connection,
• connotation,
• consequence,
• credential,
• credentials,
• credit line,
• cross reference,
• cross-refer,
• cross-reference,
• demonstration,
• denotation,
• diacritical mark,
• direct attention to,
• direction,
• drift,
• effect,
• eidolon,
• end stop,
• endorsement,
• essence,
• example,
• exemplification,
• extension,
• facet,
• fashion,
• feature,
• figure,
• force,
• form,
• germaneness,
• gestalt,
• gist,
• grammatical meaning,
• guise,
• hint,
• idea,
• illustration,
• image,
• imago,
• impact,
• implication,
• import,
• impression,
• indication,
• innuendo,
• insinuation,
• instance,
• intension,
• interest,
• intimation,
• invoke,
• item,
• letter of introduction,
• lexical meaning,
• light,
• likeness,
• lineaments,
• literal meaning,
• look,
• make a cross-reference,
• make reference to,
• manner,
• materiality,
• meaning,
• mention,
• naming,
• notation,
• note,
• notification,
• overtone,
• particular,
• patronage,
• pertinence,
• phase,
• phasis,
• pith,
• point,
• practical consequence,
• punctuation,
• punctuation marks,
• purport,
• quotation,
• range of meaning,
• real meaning,
• recommend,
• recommendation,
• refer to,
• reference mark,
• referent,
• referral,
• regard,
• relatedness,
• relation,
• relevance,
• remark,
• respect,
• scope,
• seeming,
• semantic cluster,
• semantic field,
• semblance,
• sense,
• shape,
• side,
• signature,
• significance,
• signification,
• significatum,
• signifie,
• simulacrum,
• slant,
• span of meaning,
• specification,
• spirit,
• stop,
• structural meaning,
• style,
• substance,
• sum,
• sum and substance,
• symbolic meaning,
• tenor,
• testimonial,
• tittle,
• total effect,
• totality of associations,
• trademark,
• transferred meaning,
• tribute,
• twist,
• unadorned meaning,
• undertone,
• value,
• view,
• viewpoint,
• voucher,
• wise