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— English words —

• reference n. (Literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
• reference n. A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
• reference n. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
• reference n. (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
• reference n. (Often attributive) A reference work.
• reference n. The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
• reference n. (Semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to…
• reference n. (Academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
• reference n. (Academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
• reference n. (Computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing…
• reference n. (Programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages…
• reference n. (Obsolete) Appeal.
• reference v. To provide a list of references for (a text).
• reference v. To refer to, to use as a reference.
• reference v. To mention, to cite.
• reference v. (Programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Czech
  • reference n. Reference.
  • reference n. Recommendation.

— English word, defined in German —

• reference V. Auf etwas verweisen.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• reference n. Verwijzing, referentie.

— English words, defined in French —

• reference n. Référence, citation, témoignage.
• reference v. Référencer, citer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• reference s. Referencia.
• reference s. Relación.
• reference v. Referir.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• reference s. Referência.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• reference s. Riferimento.

— In French —

• référence n.f. Action de référer ou de renvoyer d’une chose à une autre…
• référence n.f. (Par extension) Chose ou personne qui fait autorité ; étalon.
• référence n.f. Témoignages de personnes pouvant donner des renseignements…
• référence n.f. (Commerce) Échantillonnage qui donne une idée de la marchandise…
• référence n.f. (Commerce) Variétés de produit, d’articles et de marques…
• référence n.f. (Programmation) Valeur permettant d’accéder en lecture…
• référence v. Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif…
• référence v. Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif…
• référence v. Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de référencer.
• référence v. Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de référencer.
• référence v. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de référencer.
• référencé v. Participe passé masculin singulier de référencer.

96 English words from 18 English definitions

about Academic acquainted act acts address Appeal archaic are as␣opposed␣to attributive between can character characters cite compare complex Computing contain containing data decision designates elsewhere entity for identification indicated information Ireland languages list Literary markup markup␣languages means measurement memory mention object objects Obsolete of␣a Often one opposed other person previously Programming provide provided provides published Recommendation refer referee reference references reference␣work referring refers relation relationship represent Semantics sequence short some someone something source special stored submitting text that that␣is the they this thus use used used␣to value well which which␣one who whom with work writing written

18 English words from 21 foreign definitions

Action articles Auf chose citation citer Commerce des donner extension fait idée lecture marques masculin Par passé Première

49 foreign words from 21 foreign definitions

accéder autorité autre de␣la Deuxième Deuxième␣personne donne Échantillonnage étalon et␣de etwas impératif indicatif marchandise Par␣extension Participe Participe␣passé permettant personne personnes pouvant Première␣personne présent présent␣du␣subjonctif produit Programmation qui Référence référencer Referência referentie référer Referir Relación renseignements renvoyer Riferimento singulier subjonctif témoignage Témoignages Troisième Troisième␣personne une une␣autre Valeur Variétés verweisen Verwijzing

31 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

referenced referencer references referenceable reference␣book reference␣data referenceless reference␣list reference␣mark reference␣star reference␣type reference␣work reference␣angle reference␣books reference␣frame reference␣lists reference␣marks reference␣point reference␣stars reference␣works reference␣angles reference␣frames reference␣points reference␣library reference␣counting referencelessness reference␣variable reference␣electrode reference␣libraries reference␣variables reference␣electrodes

54 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

preferenced preferences coreferences dereferenced dereferencer dereferences rereferenced rereferences unreferenced dereferencers georeferenced georeferencer georeferences in␣reference␣to misreferenced misreferences nonreferenced autoreferences backreferenced backreferences back-references dispreferences georeferencers grid␣references metareferences overreferenced overreferences self-references soft␣references weak␣references crossreferenced cross-referenced crossreferences cross-references dereferenceable interreferences phyloreferences preference␣stock time␣preferences unreferenceable credit␣references preference␣stocks strong␣references forward␣references phantom␣references stereopreferences category␣references circular␣references enantiopreferences character␣references +4 words

52 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

preference coreference dereference rereference georeference misreference nonreference autoreference backreference back-reference dispreference grid␣reference isopreference metareference nonpreference overreference self-reference soft␣reference weak␣reference crossreference cross-reference interreference multireference phyloreference time␣preference call-by-reference call␣by␣reference credit␣reference idea␣of␣reference pass-by-reference pass␣by␣reference photopreference pseudoreference strong␣reference forward␣reference frame␣of␣reference ideas␣of␣reference phantom␣reference point␣of␣reference sexual␣preference stereopreference terms␣of␣reference thermopreference category␣reference circular␣reference enantiopreference frames␣of␣reference letter␣of␣reference points␣of␣reference character␣reference revealed␣preference space␣fixed␣reference

20 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EFE Efé enc -ence ere Ere 'ere fer FER f***er fere Ference ref Ref REF Ref. refer ren REN -ren

16 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EFE Efé ere Ere 'ere fer FER f***er ner NER -ner- ref Ref REF Ref. refer

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

preference referenced referencer references screen-free

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

deference reverence

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