Deem vs Refer - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between deem and refer

is that deem is while refer is to direct the attention of.

(en verb)

(obsolete) To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.

(obsolete) To adjudge; decree.

(obsolete) To dispense (justice); administer (law).

(ambitransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.

* Emerson

And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?

To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.

She deemed his efforts insufficient.

To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.

* judge * consider; see also

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(en noun)

An opinion; judgement; surmise.

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(referr)

To direct the attention of.

The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.

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

He referred the matter to the principal.

to refer a patient to a psychiatrist

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.

He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.

# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence

* delegate * direct

* refer to * refer someone to