verb To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
verb To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
He referred the matter to the principal.
verb 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.
verb To mention (something); to direct attention (to something).
To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
verb To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.
verb To be referential to another element in a sentence.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
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In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.
verb To require to resit an examination.
Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.