Referral vs. Reference
Referralnoun
The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
Referralnoun
(slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
Referralnoun
a recommendation to consult the (professional) person referred to;
Referralnoun
the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)
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.
