refer

Meanings

Verb

• To direct the attention of.
• To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• 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.
• To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• To be referential to another element in a sentence.
• To address a specific location in computer memory.
• Required to resit an examination.

Noun

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• delegate
• direct

Origin

• From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre.