Referer vs Referee - What's the difference?
referer | referee |
(Internet) the referring page; the URL that referred to a given page.
* 1996 , T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
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(sports) An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game
A person who settles a dispute
A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone
An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published
To act as a referee.
* 'He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.'
* 'She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature .'
As nouns the difference between referer and referee
is that referer is misspelling of lang=en while referee is an umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.As a verb referee is
to act as a referee.referer
English
Noun
(wikipedia referer) (en noun)- The Referer field must not be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard.
Usage notes
Referer is the field name used in the HTTP protocol (RFC1945] and [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.36 RFC2616). Originally a misspelling, it has gained currency from its use there and in related documents.
Anagrams
* ----referee
English
Noun
(en noun)- 'The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.'
- Your application, along with letters from three referees , should be received by January 31.