Referee vs. Reference

Refereenoun

(sports) An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.

Refereenoun

A person who settles a dispute.

Refereenoun

A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone.

Refereenoun

An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.

Refereeverb

To act as a referee.

Refereenoun

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

Refereenoun

(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

Refereenoun

someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

Refereenoun

an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case

Refereeverb

be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

Refereeverb

evaluate professionally a colleague's work

Referee

A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titles depending on the sport, including umpire, judge, arbiter (chess), commissaire, or technical official (by the International Olympic Committee).

Referencenoun

A relationship or relation (to something).

Referencenoun

A measurement one can compare to.

Referencenoun

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.

Referencenoun

A person who provides this information; a referee.

Referencenoun

A reference work.

Referencenoun

(semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.

Referencenoun

(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.

Referencenoun

(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.

Referencenoun

(programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.

Referencenoun

A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.

Referencenoun

(obsolete) Appeal.

Referenceverb

To provide a list of references for (a text).

Referenceverb

To refer to, to use as a reference.

Referenceverb

To mention, to cite.

Referenceverb

(programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.

Referencenoun

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

Referencenoun

That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.

Referencenoun

Relation; regard; respect.

Referencenoun

One who, or that which, is referred to.

Referencenoun

The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.

Referencenoun

Appeal.

Referencenoun

a remark that calls attention to something or someone;

Referencenoun

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;

Referencenoun

an indicator that orients you generally;

Referencenoun

a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts;

Referencenoun

a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability;

Referencenoun

the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to;

Referencenoun

the act of referring or consulting;

Referencenoun

a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;

Referencenoun

the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to;

Referenceverb

refer to;

Reference

Reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. The first object in this relation is said to refer to the second object.