Refer vs. Defer

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(transitive) To direct the attention of.

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

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(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.

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To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.

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

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(computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

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(education) Required to resit an examination.

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To carry or send back.

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Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

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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; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

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To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

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To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.

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To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.

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To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

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make reference to;

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have to do with or be relevant to;

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think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another;

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send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision;

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seek information from;

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have as a meaning;

Deferverb

(transitive) To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.

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(American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).

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(intransitive) To delay, to wait.

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To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.

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To render, to offer.

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To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

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To put off; to delay to act; to wait.

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To render or offer.

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To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; - with to.

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To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; - with to.

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hold back to a later time;

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submit or yield to another's wish or opinion;

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put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone

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(of a judge) postpone (a sentence) so that the circumstances or conduct of the defendant can be further assessed

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postpone the conscription of (someone)

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submit to or acknowledge the merit of