refer

verb · nounA2

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verb
V_es/s
refers
V_ing/Gerund
referring
V_ed/pp
referred
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To direct the attention of (someone toward something)

    The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

    He referred the matter to the principal.

    The doctor may refer patients to a psychiatrist.

    I'll refer the objections back to management for reconsideration.

    Đồng nghĩa: send

  3. 3.

    (transitive)To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.

    He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

  4. 4.

    (intransitive)To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)

    To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.

  5. 5.

    (intransitive, stative)To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.

    The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.

  6. 6.

    (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.

  7. 7.

    (intransitive)(intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [with to]

    In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.

  8. 8.

    (transitive)(transitive, education) To require to resit an examination.

    Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.

  9. 9.

    (intransitive)(intransitive, of a term or name) To have the meaning of, to denote.

    The nickname "Big Apple" refers to the city of New York.

    In programming, a "memory leak" refers to a situation where memory is or stays unnecessarily allocated.

  10. 10.

    (transitive)(medicine, transitive) To cause (pain) to be felt elsewhere.

    Inferior head refers pain to the TMJ area and the superior head refers pain to the zygomatic area.

  11. 11.

    (medicine, of the sensation of pain) To apparently relocate; to be felt in another place than where it is actually caused.

    Pain from the hip often refers to the knee.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
refers
  1. 1.

    (journalism) A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.

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Đồng nghĩa

senddelegatedirect

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb. relate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 16/8/2026

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