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Ref

/ɹɛf/

Other words from ref's letters

noun

  1. A referee.
  2. A refrigerator.

verb

  1. To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.

noun

  1. A dining-hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.

noun

  1. A relationship or relation (to something).
  2. A measurement one can compare to.
  3. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
  4. A person who provides this information; a referee.
  5. A reference work.
  6. That which serves as a reference work.
  7. The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
  8. A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
  9. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
  10. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
  11. An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
  12. (character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
  13. Appeal.

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Ref is a 4-meaning word in English. Shorter words have fewer anagrams.

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