REFERRING

Definition: REFERRING

REFERRING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Refer

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "REFERRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Oh, you were talking about your dog. I thought you were referring to that colored man inside your apartment. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

No, I'm referring to the emotionally-constipated American male over 40. (Man of the House; writing credit: David E. Peckinpah; Richard Jefferies)

You are referring to my wife! (The Omen; writing credit: David Seltzer)

Come on blanket-head! (Ethan is referring to Martin Pawley. (The Searchers; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Generating Referring Expressions: Constructing Descriptions in a Domain of Objects and Processes (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing) (reference) Referring to Space: Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 11) (reference) Reporting and Referring Child and Adolescent Research Participants: A Special Issue of Ethics & Behavior (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	On the heights of the crater of Sete Cidades (Portuguese for "Seven Cities" referring to curious rock formations on the peak) . Left to right: L. Tinayre; A. Ranc; Rafael de Buen; Dr. Louet; Cogumbreiro; J. Richard. H. Bouree is in the background photographing the wonders of the crater. Plate IV, print 24. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Referring to St. Matthew for the hand grist mills.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The Governing Body may, if it thinks fit, before referring such a complaint to a Commission of Enquiry, as hereinafter provided for, communicate with the Government in question in the manner described in Article 409. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Myopathy is a general term referring to any disease of muscles. (references)
		Dementia -- a broad term referring to a condition in which cognitive functions decline. (references)
		For States that charge a fee, some bill patients, while others bill referring physicians, hospitals, or third-party payers. (references)
Civil Liberties	Argentina	The following week, Oeschger received a telephone threat referring to the shooting. (references)
	Hong Kong	In June a pro-PRC politician called on the Government to require RTHK to use a term other than "President" when referring to the leader of Taiwan, an entity the PRC refers to as a province. (references)
Economic History	Uae	UAE law does not distinguish between an agent and distributor, referring to both as commercial agents. (references)
Human Rights	Bangladesh	Kabir's supporters have been referring to his arrest as a conspiracy to repress the Hindu minority. (references)
	Iraq	During 2000 the Special Rapporteur received reports referring to a "prison cleansing" execution campaign taking place in Abu Ghurayb, Radwaniyah, and other prisons. (references)
	Egypt	On November 11, President Mubarak issued a decree referring 22 civilians accused of membership in the Muslim Brotherhood and inciting student demonstrations to trial in a military court; their trial began on December 24, and was ongoing at year's end. (references)
Minorities	Switzerland	The newspaper, which has an editorial office in Zurich, allegedly used racist and inflammatory language when referring to Serbs in Kosovo and Macedonians in Macedonia. (references)
	Singapore	The Government responded by issuing "guidelines" that called for eliminating language referring to age, gender, or ethnicity; restrictive language that referred to attributes relevant to a job, such as "Chinese speaker" or "physically strong" remains acceptable. (references)
Political Economy	CHINA	China uses the RMB/dollar exchange rate as the basic rate and sets cross rates against other currencies by referring to international markets. (references)
Worker Rights	Mauritania	Many persons, including some from all ethnic groups, still use the designation of slave in referring to themselves or others. (references)
	Mauritius	If the Government does not respond within 21 days by referring the case either to the Permanent Arbitrary Tribunal (PAT) or to the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC), then the workers have the legal right to strike. (references)
	Albania	The Ministry of Public Order provided assistance in referring foreign victims to a shelter administered jointly by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The measures taken in the execution of that treaty and in relation to our Indian affairs generally will fully appear by referring to the accompanying papers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"REFERRING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.23% of the time. "REFERRING" is used about 1,693 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	98.23%	1,663	5,027
Adjective (general or positive)	1.59%	27	66,962
Noun (proper)	0.12%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	0.06%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,693	N/A

Expressions using "REFERRING": referring physician ♦ referring practitioner ♦ what can he be referring to?. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "REFERRING": co-referring, cross-referring, non-referring, object-referring, self-referring.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "REFERRING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		提到 (refer, Referred). (various references)

Danish		uden forudgående henvisning af anmodningen til et udvalg (without previously referring the request to committee), hjemvisningsdom (judgment referring the case back), byplanlægnings- (referring to town planning, related with town planning). (various references)

Dutch		zonder voorafgaande verwijzing van dit verzoek naar een commissie (without previously referring the request to committee), verwijzingsarrest (judgment referring the case back, nonsuit, remand), urbanistiek (referring to town planning, related with town planning), aanwijzing van de bevoegde rechter door inschakeling van een hogere rechter (procedure for referring the matter to a higher court). (various references)

Finnish		viitaten viime kirjeeseenne (referring to your last letter), kaupunkisuunnitteluun liittyvä (referring to town planning, related with town planning), asemakaavoitukseen liittyvä (referring to town planning, related with town planning). (various references)

French		référant. (various references)

German		berichtend (chronicling, relating, reporting). (various references)

Greek		πολεοδομικός (referring to town planning, related with town planning), απόφαση περί αναπομπής (judgment referring the case back). (various references)

Hungarian		vonatkozólag (concerning, in respect of, on the score of sg, regarding). (various references)

Italian		regolamento di competenza in base al quale si fa intervenire il giudice gerarchicamente superiore (procedure for referring the matter to a higher court), senza preventivo deferimento della richiesta a una commissione (without previously referring the request to committee), sentenza di rinvio (judgment referring the case back, nonsuit, remand), prescrivente (prescriber, referring practitioner), analogo (akin, analogous, referring to this, similar). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		附託 (referring or submitting to a committee), 引例 (quotation, referring to precedent), 共 (all, and, as well as, both, including, neither, plural ending, together with, with), 口に (eating, referring to, speaking of), 回付 (passing on, referring to, transmitting), 参酌 (comparison and choosing the good, consultation, referring to). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くちに (eating, referring to, speaking of), さ�"しゃく (comparison and choosing the good, consultation, referring to), ふたく (chargingwith responsibility, committing to, refer to, referring or submitting to a committee, submit to), ども, かいふ (passing on, referring to, transmitting), い�"れい (quotation, referring to precedent). (various references)

Korean		언급 (mention, Mentioning). (various references)

Pig Latin		eferringray

Portuguese		urbanístico (referring to town planning, related with town planning, urban), sem envio prévio do requerimento a uma comissão (without previously referring the request to committee), acórdão de remessa (judgment referring the case back). (various references)

Romanian		referire (reference). (various references)

Russian		отсылать относящийся относительно. (various references)

Scottish		buntainn (referring to, touching). (various references)

Spanish		referente (referable, referent, regarding). (various references)

Swedish		refererande. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "REFERRING": misreferring, preferring. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"REFERRING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Raffarin, refering, referrant, reffering, refrig, refrring. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "REFERRING" (pronounced rufer"ing)
6	r u f er" i ng	preferring.
5	-u f er" i ng	deferring.
4	-f er" i ng	conferring, inferring, transferring.
3	-er" i ng	blurring, concurring, demurring, deterring, incurring, nonrecurring, occurring, purring, recurring, slurring, spurring, stirring, whirring.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-r-r-r"
	-1 letter: fingerer, inferrer.
	-2 letters: feigner, fernier, freeing, reefing, refiner.
	-3 letters: erring, feeing, ferine, finger, fringe, refine, refire, ringer.
	-4 letters: feign, finer, firer, freer, frere, frier, genie, genre, green, grief, infer, refer, reign, renig, rerig, rifer.
	-5 letters: eger, erne, fere, fern, fine, fire, firn, free, frig, gene, gien, girn, gree, grin, neif, reef, reif, rein, rife, ring.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-r-r-r"
	+1 letter: preferring.
	+2 letters: refrigerant.
	+3 letters: misreferring, refrigerants.
	+4 letters: interferogram, refrigerating, refrigeration.
	+5 letters: interferograms, refrigerations, retransferring, unrefrigerated.
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