Refer vs Belong - What's the difference?

refer | belong |

As verbs the difference between refer and belong

is that refer is to direct the attention of while belong is to have its proper place.

As a preposition belong is

of, belonging to.

refer

English

Verb

(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

Synonyms

* delegate * direct

Derived terms

* refer to * refer someone to

Anagrams

* English palindromes ----

belong

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) belongen, from .

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To have its proper place.

# (label) To be accepted in a group.

# To be a part of a group.

To be part of, or the property of.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}

To be the spouse or partner of. (rfex)

(followed by'' to''') To be an element of (a set). The symbol $\in$ means '''''belongs to .

To be deserved by.

* (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)

More evils belong us than happen to us.

Derived terms

* belonging * belongingness

External links

Etymology 2

Compare Kriol blanga'', Bislama ''blong'', Tok Pisin ''bilong'', and Torres Strait Creole ''blong .

Alternative forms

* blung * , belonga, blonga

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Of, belonging to.

* 1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory

Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.

* 1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma

By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.

* 1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud

Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.

* 1986, Kowanyama News, Dec.

Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.

* 1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen

There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.

* 1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories

Get that fire [wood] stacked up like that tree there, that high ... It wasn’t wood belong to that fire pile. Might be for station, or somebody else, you know.