| reference | |
| 1. n. (literary, or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something). | |
| 2. n. A measurement one can compare to. | |
| 3. n. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted. | |
| 4. n. A person who provides this information; a referee. | |
| 5. n. A reference work. | |
| 6. n. (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. | |
| 7. n. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text. | |
| 8. n. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source. | |
| 9. n. (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself. | |
| 10. n. (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as™ for the ™ symbol. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) Appeal. | |
| 12. v. To provide a list of references for (a text). | |
| You must thoroughly reference your paper before submitting it. | |
| 13. v. To refer to, to use as a reference. | |
| Reference the dictionary for word meanings. | |
| 14. v. To mention, to cite. | |
| In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent. | |
| 15. v. (programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory. | |
| The given pointer will reference the actual generated data. | |
