1. to mention or speak about someone or something [= to cite, to indicate, to specify].
• She didn't once refer to her son.
• We agreed never to refer to the matter again.
• Even if when she was asked she declined to say, everyone knew whom she was referring to.
• Pliny the Younger referred to Christians in Asia Minor, but he didn't refer to Jesus.
• When you refer to someone's looks, you are referring to how beautiful or ugly they are, especially how beautiful they are.
• In the CSS box model each box has a content area and optional surrounding padding, border, and margin areas. The following box model diagram shows how these areas relate and the terminology used to refer to pieces of margin, border, and padding.
• A JavaScript object is a collection of properties, we refer to the value of a property using the dot notation.
refer to somebody/something as [= to call]
• Valentino Rossi likes to be referred to as 'The Doctor'.
• The trend today is to refer to marine algae used as food as sea vegetables.
• The directory where the eclipse IDE saves all its files is referred to as workspace
• The process of converting a video into another format is sometimes referred to as "encoding" the video.
refer to somebody/something by
• The hospital now refers to patients by name, not number.
• Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison, said he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. "I request that starting today you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun." [Reuters]
2. If a writing or information refers to someone or something, it is about that person or thing [= to be about, to concern, to apply to].
• The figures refer to trade in bananas.
• Resolution refers to the number of dots a screen shows per inch.
• AJAX refers to a set of techniques including the use of JavaScript, CSS, and asynchronous HTTP
requests.
• Traditionally, the term 'form' has referred to a printed document that contains spaces for you to fill in information. HTML borrows the concept of a form to refer to different elements that allow you to collect information from visitors to your site.
3. to look at a book, map, piece of paper etc for information. [= to seek information, to consult]
• This book is not aimed at beginners. Those readers should instead refer to books such as Beginning JavaScript and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers.
TO RELATE /rɪˈleɪt/ = [intransitive] if two things relate, they are connected in some way [= to have relation, to link, to associate].
• JavaScript should not be confused with Java. They are not related, the only commonality between the two is in their name.
• In 1964 a physicist by the name of Peter Higgs proposed that there was an energy field that permeated the entire universe, this energy field is now called the Higgs field. The energy field that Higgs proposed would interact with subatomic particles and give them a mass. The very massive particles would interact a lot with the field while massless particles would not interact at all. In the press you don't hear about the Higgs' field but about the Higgs' Boson: how these two thing relate? The Higgs's Boson is the smallest bit of Higgs field. [http://physicsforme.com/]
• Having determined the content of your site, you can group the information into related chunks and create a site map. That site map shows each of the pages of your site, how they relate to each other, and what needs to appear on them.
• How are sex and love related for you ?
TO REFERENCE = [transitive] (written) to mention another book, article etc that contains information connected with the subject you are writing about [= to mention another book].
• When you are referencing a piece of work such as a book, film or research paper, the HTML <cite> element can be used to indicate where the citation is from.
• In this chapter, we begin working with a simpler version of the sample application. Then, in subsequent chapters, we will reference more complete versions of the sample application.
• The book does not reference anything written in the last 10 years.
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