Referral vs Delivery - What's the difference?
referral | delivery |
The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
(slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
The act of conveying something.
The item which has been conveyed.
The act of giving birth
(baseball) A pitching motion.
(baseball) A thrown pitch.
The manner of speaking.
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(medicine) administration of a drug
(cricket) A ball .
(curling) The process of throwing a stone.
As nouns the difference between referral and delivery
is that referral is the act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring while delivery is the act of conveying something.referral
English
Noun
(en noun)- The insurance company insists I get a referral from my regular doctor, I can't just go to the specialist, a GP has got to refer me.
- After misbehaving in class, George was given a referral for disrupting class and sent to the office.
delivery
English
Noun
(deliveries)- The delivery was completed by four.
- delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
- Your delivery is on the table.
- The delivery was painful.
- ''His delivery has a catch in it.
- ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
- The actor's delivery was flawless.
- I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
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- Drug delivery system .