referとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国用法) enPR: rī-fû, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɜː/
• (米国用法) enPR: rī-fûr, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: re‧fer

動詞

refer (三人称単数 現在形 refers, 現在分詞 referring, 過去形および過去分詞形 referred)

1. (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)

   The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.

2. (transitive) To submit to (another person または group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

   He referred the matter to the principal.

   to refer a patient to a psychiatrist

3. (transitive) 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.

   He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

4. (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)

   To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.

5. (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.

   The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.

   1. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
   2. (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [+ to (object)]

      In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.

      • 2010 September 1, Ajay Mittal, Programming In C: A Practical Approach‎^[1], Pearson Education India, →ISBN, OCLC 1047790524, page 201:

        Hence, the precise number of bytes to which the pointer refers to is not known. The compiler must know the number of bytes to which a pointer refers to in order to apply dereference operation

6. (intransitive, education) Required to resit an examination.

   Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.

同意語

• delegate
• direct

派生語

• refer to
• refer someone to

関連する語

• reference
• referral
• relate
• relative
• relation
• relationship

Further reading

• refer on Wikipedia.

語源 2

Conversion of refer (noun)

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːfə/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːfɝ/
• Homophone: reefer
• Rhymes: -iːfə(ɹ)

名詞

refer (複数形 refers)

1. (journalism) A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.
   • 2015 August 5, “Corrections”, in The Herald-News‎^[2], Joliet, Illinois: Shaw Media, page 2:

     A refer on page 1 of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, edition of The Herald-News contained incorrect information about the story “Neighbors at odds over Joliet liquor license” that appeared on Page 4 of the same edition.

   • 2017 May 1, Aruani, Amanda May, “Letter from the Editor”, in The Arts Paper‎^[3], New Haven, Connecticut: The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, page 3:

     Looking at the refers on page 2, it's obvious that May became something of an accidental women's issue.

   • 2021 September 10, Blumenthal, Ralph, “A Time Capsule in Two Front Pages”, in The New York Times, New York City:

     The paper of Sept. 11 was not without its alarms. On Page One, an ominous “refer” (pronounced reefer) to an article inside the paper: Palestinian snipers had killed two Israelis, bringing a retaliatory shelling by Israeli tanks. On A3: A suicide bomber had killed two police officers in Istanbul.

アナグラム

• Ferre, Freer, Frere, freer