| reference | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. mention, reference | 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" |
| ~ comment, remark, input | a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information.; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" |
| ~ allusion | passing reference or indirect mention. |
| ~ retrospection | reference to things past.; "the story begins with no introductory retrospections" |
| ~ name-dropping | the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener.; "the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it" |
| n. (communication) | 2. acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, 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" |
| ~ annotation, notation, note | a comment or instruction (usually added).; "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" |
| ~ photo credit | a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph. |
| ~ cross-index, cross-reference | a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work. |
| n. (communication) | 3. point of reference, reference, reference point | an indicator that orients you generally.; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" |
| ~ bench mark, benchmark | a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point. |
| ~ landmark | a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land. |
| ~ lubber's line, lubber's mark, lubber's point, lubber line | a fixed line on a ship's compass indicating its heading. |
| ~ target, mark | a reference point to shoot at.; "his arrow hit the mark" |
| ~ white line | a white stripe in the middle of a road to mark traffic lanes. |
| ~ indicator | a signal for attracting attention. |
| ~ buoy | bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards. |
| n. (communication) | 4. book of facts, reference, reference book, reference work | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts.; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" |
| ~ book | a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together).; "I am reading a good book on economics" |
| ~ cookbook, cookery book | a book of recipes and cooking directions. |
| ~ instruction book | a book of directions for using or operating some piece of equipment. |
| ~ source book | a collection of historically important documents published together as a book. |
| ~ wordbook | a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings). |
| ~ enchiridion, handbook, vade mecum | a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location. |
| ~ directory | an alphabetical list of names and addresses. |
| ~ yearly, annual, yearbook | a reference book that is published regularly once every year. |
| ~ book of maps, map collection, atlas | a collection of maps in book form. |
| ~ cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia | a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty. |
| n. (communication) | 5. character, character reference, reference | 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" |
| ~ good word, recommendation, testimonial | something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable. |
| n. (cognition) | 6. denotation, extension, 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" |
| ~ meaning, substance | the idea that is intended.; "What is the meaning of this proverb?" |
| n. (act) | 7. consultation, reference | the act of referring or consulting.; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" |
| ~ action | something done (usually as opposed to something said).; "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" |
| n. (communication) | 8. reference, source | 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" |
| ~ publication | a copy of a printed work offered for distribution. |
| n. (communication) | 9. address, computer address, reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored. |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ computer code, code | (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions. |
| ~ parameter, argument | (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program. |
| ~ uniform resource locator, universal resource locator, url | the address of a web page on the world wide web. |
| n. (cognition) | 10. 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" |
| ~ meaning, substance | the idea that is intended.; "What is the meaning of this proverb?" |
| v. (creation) | 11. cite, reference | refer to.; "he referenced his colleagues' work" |
| ~ authorship, penning, writing, composition | the act of creating written works.; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" |
| ~ indite, pen, write, compose | produce a literary work.; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" |
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