Word Finder - referring

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To direct the attention of.

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

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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.

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(construed with to) 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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To address a specific location in computer memory.

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Required to resit an examination.

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The act by which somebody or something is referred; a reference.

I wasn't referring to that.

Megan glanced around and then realized the boy was referring to her.

But today at the spring, she had been referring to herself.

The diversity of nomenclature indicated above 1 Referring to the Japanese custom of employing a go-between to arrange a marriage.

This decision was communicated to the foreign churches, and seems to have been justified by referring to the self-mutilation of Origen and adducing objectionable doctrines which he was said to have promulgated.

Only a small fragment of his annals has been discovered relating to his invasion of Egypt in 567 B.C., and referring to " Phut of the Ionians."

Later on, Jacob 3 I Hebrew vi, from the initial letters of Rabbi Shelomoh Yizbagi, a convenient method used by Jewish writers in referring to well-known authors.

In the first page, I have struck out the words ` uti posthac docebitur,' as referring to the third book; which is all at present, from your affectionate friend, and humble servant, " Is.

The clue ends up referring to a ship, a dramatic turn that leads Ben and his team to other clues.

The tradition I was referring to was you not eating breakfast.

Read them... said her mother, thoughtfully, referring to some verses Prince Andrew had written in Natasha's album.

Whether he was referring to the fact that they were leaving or that Alex had left her was unclear.

Many Greek inscriptions have been found here, some referring to the shrine.

The Christian passages, which are poetically of no value, are evidently of literary origin, and may be of any date down to that of the extant MS. The curious passage which says that the subjects of Hrothgar sought deliverance from Grendel in prayer at the temple of the Devil, " because they knew not the true God," must surely have been substituted for a passage referring sympathetically to the worship of the ancient gods.

A subordinate matter in the book that attracted much attention at the time is the conception of the "Plastic Medium," which is a mere revival of Plato's "World-Soul," and is meant to explain the existence and laws of nature without referring all to the direct operation of God.

When sculptured decorations were added they frequently took the form of imitations of the actual festoons with which it was usual to ornament altars, or of symbols, such as crania and horns of oxen, referring to the victims sacrificed.

Ansible 160 ½, " Fort Mudge Steam Calliope Company " -- an old fannish jape of Lee Hoffman's, referring to Pogo.

Referring to a height and weight chart for infants is a good way to track the growth and development of newborns.

For example, "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit" was uttered by Simpson's attorney Johnnie Cochran, referring to a glove the prosecution presented as evidence in the trial.

Whatever term you want to use in referring to these items, closeouts can provide a great option for bargain hunters, both in brick and mortar stores and online.

Eventually however, Christianity saw a broader incorporation of celebrations and commemorations regarding the new year, with many referring to this day as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision.

In one of the early interviews for the show, she calls herself a "praying mantis" when referring to her male relationships.

One contestant is famously quoted as referring to herself as having a "butt-face" despite the fact that by most standards, she would not be considered unattractive.

This was to be the root of Miles' distrust with Cardassians, often referring to them with the slanderous term "Cardies".

Was this person referring to Qui-Gon or Jar Jar?

There seems no reason, therefore, to doubt that Eusebius is here referring to the Christian philosopher.

The last three writers mentioned above add that he was a tribune of the people, while Plutarch, referring to the affair, gives the further information that the Cinna who was killed by the mob was a poet.

The treaty made in 1896 with the Argentine government, referring to the arbitration of disputed points concerning the boundary, became practically for the moment a dead letter, and both Argentines and Chileans began to talk openly of an appeal to arms to settle the matter once for all.

This fourth temple is, beyond question, that to which Croesus contributed, and it was, therefore, in process of building about 540 B.C. Our authorities seem to be referring to it when they tell us that the Artemision was raised by common contribution of the great cities of Asia, and took 120 years to complete.

Charles, by Hyde's advice, had not interfered in the movement, and had avoided inconvenient concessions to the various factions by referring all to a " free parliament."

Dicaearchus, referring to the town of Cassander, gives two measurements for the circuit, equal to about 9 m.

Papias was also a pioneer in the habit, later so general, of taking the work of the Six Days (Hexaemeron) and the account of Paradise as referring mystically to Christ and His Church (so says Anastasius of Sinai).

In the 14th century, however, we still find the Parlement referring delicate affairs to the king; but in the 15th century it had acquired a jurisdiction independent in principle.

There is no evidence from Galen's own works that he did make this addition to the doctrines of syllogism, and the remarkable passage quoted by Minoides Minas from a Greek commentator on the Analytics, referring the fourth figure to Galen, clearly shows that the addition did not, as generally supposed, rest on a new principle, but was merely an amplification or alteration of the indirect moods of the first figure already noted by Theophrastus and the earlier Peripatetics.

Before referring to some of the writings of members of the community we should mention the famed translation of the Scriptures known as the Bible of Kralice.

First referring it to the genus Caprimulgus, its original describer soon saw that it was no true goatsucker.

Early names for it are Lac argenti and Luna cornea, the first referring to its form when freshly precipitated, the latter to its appearance after fusion.

It consisted of a small MS. of the Gospels in the Vulgate, fragments of the liturgy of the Celtic church, and notes, in the Gaelic script of the 12th century, referring to the charters of the ancient monastery, including a summary of that granted by David I.

There is, however, justification for referring some specimens to Arundo, Phragmites, and to the Bambuseae.

Origen, referring the act of creation to eternity instead of to time, affirmed the eternal personal existence of the Logos.

On some plates the stars were allowed to trail and the planet was followed, in others the reverse procedure was taken; in either case the planet's position is measured by referring it to " comparison stars " of approximately its own magnitude situated within 25' to 30' of the centre of the plate, while these stars are themselves fixed by measurement from brighter " reference stars," the positions of which are found by meridian observations if absolute places are desired.

In referring to this code, Sir Henry Maine spoke of Livingston as "the first legal genius of modern times" (Cambridge Essays, 1856, p.17).

On the esplanade in front of Macduff Castle, still called the Playfield, took place in 1552 one of the first recorded performances of Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits (1540); his Tragedy of the Cardinal (1547), referring to the murder of Beaton, being also performed there.

Lactantius (circa 300 A.D.), for example, roundly declares that Plato and Aristotle, referring everything to this earthly life, " made virtue mere folly "; though himself maintaining, with pardonable inconsistency, that man's highest good did not consist in mere pleasure, but in the consciousness of the filial relation of the soul to God.

We observe, however, that Paley's method is often mixed with reasonings that belong to an alien and older manner of thought; as when he supports the claim of the poor to charity by referring to the intention of mankind "when they agreed to a separation of the common fund," or when he infers that monogamy is a part of the divine design from the equal numbers of males and females born.

Or, again, we should recognize as a test of the " authoritative " character of moral ideas or feelings the fact that they are complex and representative, referring to a remote rather than to a proximate good, remembering the while that " the sense of duty is transitory, and will diminish as fast as moralization increases."

Referring to special articles, Solar System, Star, Sun, MooN, &c. for a description of the various parts of the universe, we confine ourselves, at present, to setting forth a few of the most general modern conceptions of the universe.

The vernal equinox is taken as the initial point on the sphere from which co-ordinates are measured in the equatorial and ecliptic systems. Referring to fig.

On the 27th of January following Wilberforce carried a motion for referring to a special committee the further examination of witnesses, but after full inquiry the motion for abolition in April 1791 was lost by 163 votes to 88.

The name in Josephus is Asphaltites, referring to the bituminous deposits above alluded to.