reference

（与to连用）提及；涉及

参考；查询

证明；鉴定

reference

提及, 涉及, 参考, 参考书目, 证明书(人), 介绍信(人)

reference

1. a remark that calls attention to something or someone; "she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife"

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2. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"

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3. an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"

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4. a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"

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5. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively"

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6. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"

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7. the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"

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8. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"

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9. the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to; "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"

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1. refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work"

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