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refer

/ɹɪˈfɝ/ verbe A2

En français : référer, renvoyer

  1. To direct the attention of (someone toward something). (transitive) · The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
  2. To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. (transitive) · He referred the matter to the principal.· The doctor may refer patients to a psychiatrist.
  3. 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. (transitive) · He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
  4. To mention (something); to direct attention (to something). (intransitive) · To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
  5. To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to. (intransitive) · The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.
  6. To be referential to another element in a sentence.
  7. To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. (intransitive) · In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.
  8. To require to resit an examination. (transitive) · Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.

He/she/it refers · Prétérit referred · Participe passé referred · Forme en -ing referring

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Formes du verbe

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Dans la bibliothèque

He could not refer it to Marilla, who, he felt, would be quite sure to sniff scornfully and remark that the only difference she saw between Anne and the other girls was that they sometimes kept their tongues quiet while Anne never did.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 187 · C1
“I’m positively certain, Diana, that life can never be quite the same again as it was in those olden days,” she said mournfully, as if referring to a period of at least fifty years back.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 200 · C1
“I don’t feel as if I ought to let you give it up,” said Marilla, referring to the scholarship.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 323 · C1
the story which followed, of his designs on Miss Darcy, received some confirmation from what had passed between Colonel Fitzwilliam and herself only the morning before; and at last she was referred for the truth of every particular to Colonel Fitzwilliam himself--from whom she had previously received the information of his near concern in all his cousin’s affairs and whose character she had no reason to question.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 239 · B2

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