Pertaining vs Refer - What's the difference?
pertaining | refer |
Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
* 1869 , Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature (page 90)
To direct the attention of.
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.
(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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As verbs the difference between pertaining and refer
is that pertaining is while refer is to direct the attention of.As a noun pertaining
is something that pertains; an appurtenance.pertaining
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.
Anagrams
*refer
English
Verb
(referr)- The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
- He referred the matter to the principal.
- to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
- He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.