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

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(resemble)

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(transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

* Shakespeare

We will resemble you in that.

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* 2005 , .

But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

The twins resemble each other.

To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

(obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.

* Holland

They can so well resemble man's speech.

(obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.