Correspondence vs Reference - What's the difference?
correspondence | reference |
(uncountable) Friendly discussion.
(uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
(countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
(uncountable) Newspaper or news stories, generally.
(countable) A postal or other written communication.
(uncountable) Postal or other written communications.
(set theory, countable) A relation.
A relationship or relation ((to) something).
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A measurement one can compare to.
Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted
A reference work.
(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.
(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
(academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
(programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
(programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in a web page such as ™ or €.
(obsolete) appeal
* Shakespeare
to refer to, to make reference to, to cite
to mention
As a noun correspondence
is (uncountable) friendly discussion.correspondence
Noun
See also
* correspondentreference
English
Noun
(en noun)- all these are far more eminent and great, when they shall proceed from a sanctified spirit, that hath a true touch of religion and a reference to God.
- Make your full reference .
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* senseVerb
(referenc)- Reference the dictionary for word meanings.