Wondering how to hyphenate the English word reference? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.
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A remark that calls attention to something or someone She made frequent mention of her promotion There was no mention of it The speaker made several references to his wife |
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A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage The student's essay failed to list several important citations The acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book The article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
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An indicator that orients you generally It is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved |
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A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts He contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
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A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability Requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
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The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression The class of objects that an expression refers to The extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
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The act of referring or consulting Reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer |
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A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to He carried an armful of references back to his desk He spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
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(computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
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The relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to He argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes |
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Refer to He referenced his colleagues' work |