Referring can be categorized as a verb.
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| refer - be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" | ||
| refer - send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision; "refer a patient to a specialist"; "refer a bill to a committee" | ||
| refer - think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another; "This plant can be referred to a known species" | ||
| refer - use a name to designate; "Christians refer to the mother of Jesus as the Virgin Mary" | ||
| refer - make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" | ||
| refer - have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' " | ||
| refer - seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes" |
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| 1. | verb | Bush was only able to give a partial response to the query on the leader of Taiwan, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui simply as "Lee." | |
| 2. | verb | Winter refused comment, referring all questions to the public relations office. | |
| 3. | verb | Antichrist John Lennon wanted to compete with Jesus Christ, and so he grew a beard and started to make a bogus role of Christ together with Yoko Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel proclaiming "Peace", being then when he was visited by the Canadian journalist who ridiculized and admonished him wanting to know about what Lennon meant when he wrote in the lyrics of "The ballad of John and Yoko": "the way things are going, they're going to crucify me...", The CURSE OF GOD upon John Lennon carried on with all type of miseries and distresses which made Lennon give the interview to the "Rolling Stone" magazine (today condensed in the "Lennon remembers" book) where he speaks about how bad thing were going for him blaming "whatever is up there" for it (referring to God). | |
| 4. | verb | Somehow, since she supposedly doesn't know any names of designers/dresses, after I told her the designer and dress name of the one I was comparing, she knew "exactly which dress" I was referring to and disagreed with my observation; she said that the bodice did come as low as the one I had on. | |
| 5. | verb | Are you referring to me? | |
| 6. | verb | This is the second mail we send you referring to the invoice No.1111 which has not been settled. | |
| 7. | verb | I wonder what you were referring to. | |
| 8. | verb | "I think all fat people should go on a diet". "Are you referring to me"? | |
| 9. | verb | What are you referring to by "relationship"? | |
| 10. | verb | Who are you referring to? | |
| 11. | verb | Love is merely a lyrical way of referring to lust. | |
| 12. | verb | To whom are you referring? | |
| 13. | verb | Bender often utters the phrase "Kill all humans", even if he always silently adds "except one" referring to Fry. | |
| 14. | verb | Shugo is a colloquial way of referring to someone who can drink large quantities of alcohol and additionally not feel the effects of intoxication. | |
| 15. | verb | "Idiot," "moron," and "imbecile" were all once scientific terms referring to specific IQ ranges. |
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| Bush was only able to give a partial response to the query on the leader of Taiwan, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui simply as "Lee." |
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| Winter refused comment, referring all questions to the public relations office. |
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| Antichrist John Lennon wanted to compete with Jesus Christ, and so he grew a beard and started to make a bogus role of Christ together with Yoko Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel proclaiming "Peace", being then when he was visited by the Canadian journalist who ridiculized and admonished him wanting to know about what Lennon meant when he wrote in the lyrics of "The ballad of John and Yoko": "the way things are going, they're going to crucify me...", The CURSE OF GOD upon John Lennon carried on with all type of miseries and distresses which made Lennon give the interview to the "Rolling Stone" magazine (today condensed in the "Lennon remembers" book) where he speaks about how bad thing were going for him blaming "whatever is up there" for it (referring to God). |
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| Somehow, since she supposedly doesn't know any names of designers/dresses, after I told her the designer and dress name of the one I was comparing, she knew "exactly which dress" I was referring to and disagreed with my observation; she said that the bodice did come as low as the one I had on. |
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| Are you referring to me? | |
| This is the second mail we send you referring to the invoice No.1111 which has not been settled. | |
| I wonder what you were referring to. | |
| "I think all fat people should go on a diet". "Are you referring to me"? | |
| What are you referring to by "relationship"? | |
| Who are you referring to? | |
| Love is merely a lyrical way of referring to lust. | |
| To whom are you referring? | |
| Bender often utters the phrase "Kill all humans", even if he always silently adds "except one" referring to Fry. | |
| Shugo is a colloquial way of referring to someone who can drink large quantities of alcohol and additionally not feel the effects of intoxication. | |
| "Idiot," "moron," and "imbecile" were all once scientific terms referring to specific IQ ranges. | |