refer
To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
Other meanings
To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
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.
Synonyms
- delegate
- direct
Related words
- corefer
- dereferer
- misrefer
- referee
- referent
- referment
- referologist
- referrable
- referrer
- rerefer
- cross-refer
- refer to
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "referre".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “refer” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.