Refer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REFER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to direct to a source for help or information
• mention or allude to
• direct the attention of someone to
• (of a word, phrase, or symbol) describe or denote; have as a referent
• pass a matter to (a higher body) for a decision
• send or direct someone to a medical specialist
• read or otherwise use (a source of information) in order to ascertain something; consult
• trace or attribute something to (someone or something) as a cause or source
• regard something as belonging to (a certain period, place, or class)
• fail (a candidate in an examination)
• allude (to)
• To carry or send back.
• Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.
• 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; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
• To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one\'s self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
• To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
• To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
• To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one\'s integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.
• make reference to
• be relevant to
• think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another
• send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision
• seek information from
• have as a meaning
• use a name to designate

Words related to REFER

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Words that contain REFER

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How to use REFER in a sentence

• For further views on these and other matters connected with the duties of the home department I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Interior.
• These views refer to the body alone, and so are as true of animals as of men.
• I will now refer to some of the most notable masonry dams in existence, commencing with France, where perhaps the finest is that known as the Furens, in connection with the St.
• The careful study of the period to which we refer led to a new discovery, that every curve may be considered as composed of infinitely small straight lines.
• For satisfaction on this point, however, I must refer readers to Mr.
• In this connection it will not be out of place to refer to a scene that was created on the Democratic side of the House by Hon.
• This very day a case occurred while in the hall of the public assembly, which I have thought best to refer to your Majesty.
• But he expresses what I would say so much more clearly than I can, that once more I refer my readers to him.
• I beg leave to refer you to my letter to them, of this date, on those subjects.
• If I wish to refer it to the Vatican, I, myself, take it there.
• Some of those changes he could refer to finite minds, his own and others.
• In order to make things clear and interesting to boys and girls we must refer every day to what they have before learned in school and out of school.
• The English were anxious to refer the question to the decision of a third power, to which the Americans would not consent.
• It may, if it decides so, refer to the Holy Land for further consideration and consultation.
• The operation to which we are about to refer was, therefore, the last engagement that took place upon Egyptian territory.
• I refer to this subject here because only thus can we come to a decision on the question whether the nursing mother owes the taking of alcohol as a duty to her child.
• He met Berkeley frequently, but in his writings does not refer to him.
• In order that the reader may appreciate all that must be comprehended and judged of correctly at a glance by a General, we refer to the first chapter.
• Symbols of 17th Degree refer to the ancient doctrines, 254-l.
• And the genial Bud did not refer to the Adams House.
• Upon this question judgment has been suspended, and I refer it to your Majesty, so that you may make such provision as is best.
• Cranstoun meant, by saying, that his own interests would make him careful, to refer to such discourse.
• Many of these have descendants in Iredell at the present time, and they can refer with veneration to the names of their patriotic ancestors.
• Shep and Snap, as they were always called, were close chums, and once in a while their own folks would refer to them as the Twins.
• Others may have understood the inquiry to refer only to living relatives and therefore have omitted almost all reference to their ancestors.
• I refer all to your judgement, and so am secure it will be done as is best.
• And never by word or gesture did he refer to anything that had been between them in the past.
• Wacha, but members can refer to his excellent speech.
• I refer more particularly to that relating to the home valuation.
• Paul did not understand his commission to refer to water.
• I have to regret that I am compelled to refer so often to my own exertions.
• It will be sufficient here to refer only to those whose names are connected with myth or legend.

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