REFER


Meaning of REFER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪfɜ:(r) ]

( refers, referring, referred)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you refer to a particular subject or person, you talk about them or mention them.

In his speech, he referred to a recent trip to Canada.

VERB : V to n

2.

If you refer to someone or something as a particular thing, you use a particular word, expression, or name to mention or describe them.

Marcia had referred to him as a dear friend...

VERB : V to n as n

3.

If a word refers to a particular thing, situation, or idea, it describes it in some way.

The term electronics refers to electrically-induced action.

VERB : V to n

4.

If a person who is ill is referred to a hospital or a specialist, they are sent there by a doctor in order to be treated.

Patients are mostly referred to hospital by their general practitioners...

The patient should be referred for tests immediately.

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed to n , be V-ed

5.

If you refer a task or a problem to a person or an organization, you formally tell them about it, so that they can deal with it.

He could refer the matter to the high court.

VERB : V n to n

6.

If you refer someone to a person or organization, you send them there for the help they need.

Now and then I referred a client to him.

VERB : V n to n

7.

If you refer to a book or other source of information, you look at it in order to find something out.

He referred briefly to his notebook.

VERB : V to n

8.

If you refer someone to a source of information, you tell them the place where they will find the information which they need or which you think will interest them.

Mr Bryan also referred me to a book by the American journalist Anthony Scaduto.

VERB : V n to n

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