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refer | name |

As a verb refer

is to direct the attention of.

As a pronoun name is

what?.

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 ----

    name

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia name) (en noun)
  • Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
  • * Bible, Genesis ii. 19
  • Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
  • * Shakespeare
  • That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.
  • * 1904 , , (The Marvelous Land of Oz) :
  • So good a man as this must surely have a name .
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=[http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-s-langston Lee S. Langston], magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title=[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/4/the-adaptable-gas-turbine The Adaptable Gas Turbine] , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
  • Reputation.
  • * 1604 , (William Shakespeare), :
  • Good name in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.[http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.34.42.html]
  • * 1952 , (Old Testament), Revised Standard Version , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:
  • And David won a name for himself.[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]
  • A person (or legal person).
  • * Dryden
  • They list with women each degenerate name .
  • * second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place , ISBN 1841692336, page 287 [http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names]:
  • Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall,.
  • * 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management , ISBN 0074620975 page 79 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names]:
  • Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?
  • * 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability , ISBN 0203891058, page 29 [http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names]:
  • International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and.
  • Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
  • * Macaulay
  • The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name , came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
  • (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
  • An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
  • Synonyms

    * proper name * See also

    Derived terms

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    Verb

    (nam)
  • To give a name to.
  • * 1904:' , ''The Land of Oz'' — I will ' name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
  • *
  • , title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients], chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
  • To mention, specify.
  • To identify as relevant or important
  • To publicly implicate.
  • To designate for a role.
  • Derived terms

    * codename * misname * name after * name names * you name it

    See also

    * christen * cognomen * epithet * moniker * nom de guerre * nom de plume * pseudonym * sobriquet

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