Referral vs Referred - What's the difference?
referral | referred |
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.
(refer)
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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As a noun referral
is the act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.As a verb referred is
past tense of refer.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.
referred
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Verb
(head)refer
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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.