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Results for: "reference"

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Translations:

reference — academic writing
→ ссы́лка (ssýlka) f
→ отсы́лка (otsýlka) f
→ исто́чник (istóčnik) m
reference — measurement one can compare to
→ этало́н (etalón) f
→ рефере́нция (referéncija) f
→ образе́ц (obrazéc) m
reference — information about a person
→ рекоменда́ция (rekomendácija) f
→ поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) n
→ характери́стика (xarakterístika) f

More translations:

reference
→ упоминание
reference
→ рекомендация
reference
→ ссылка

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 10

  1. 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”
    Synonymsmention
  2. 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”
  3. an indicator that orients you generally

    • “it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved”
    Synonymsreference pointpoint of reference
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  1. a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts

    • “he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic”
    Synonymsreference bookreference workbook of facts
  2. 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”
    Synonymscharactercharacter reference
  3. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"

    • “the extension of `satellite of Mars'”
  4. the act of referring or consulting

    • “reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer”
    Synonymsconsultation
  5. 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”
    Synonymssource
  6. (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored

    Synonymsaddresscomputer address
  7. 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”

VERB 1

  1. refer to; work"

    • “he referenced his colleagues'”
    Synonymscite