Refer vs Referent - What's the difference?
refer | referent | Related terms |
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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(semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
That which is referenced.
Referent is a related term of refer.
As a verb refer
is to direct the attention of.As a noun referent is
the specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.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.