Confer

Definition: Confer

Confer

Adverb

1. Compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text).

Verb

1. Have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action".

2. Present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone".

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Date "confer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Confer \Con*fer"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Conferred; Conferring.]. (Websters 1913)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

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CONFER

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Synonyms: Confer

Advice

Confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.

Conversation

Discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.

Council

Verb: assemble, gather together, meet (assemblage); confer, caucus, hold council; huddle.

Dueness

Give a right, confer a right; entitle; authorize; sanctify, legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot.

Giving

Give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign.

Inexpedience

Verb: be beneficial; Adjective:; produce good, do good; profit; (be of use); benefit; confer a benefit.

Produce a good effect; do a good turn, confer an obligation; improve.

Permission

Grant, empower, charter, enfranchise, privilege, confer a privilege, license, authorize, warrant; sanction; intrust; (commission).

Power

Give power, confer power, exercise power; Noun: empower, enable, invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen; compel.

Repute

Confer honor on, reflect honor on; Verb:; shed a luster on; redound.to one's honor, ennoble.

Transfer

Verb: transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant; (confer); consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange;(interchange).

Crosswords: Confer

Latin (CFR, conf., confer).

That is good, for believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days - a martyr's death. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

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Books

• Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-Term Care in America (National Bureau of Economic Research confer (reference)

• Partnerships for Global Ecosystem Management: Science, Economics and Law: Proceedings and Reference Readings from the Fifth Annual World Bank confer (reference)

• Proceedings of Cryogenic Materials Confer 1982 (reference)

• Report of the Director-General. Asian Development in the 1980s - Growth, Employment and Working Cond: Ninth Asian Regional Confer (reference)

• Research Amateur Astronomy: Proceedings of the Symposium on Research Amateur Astronomy 7-12 July 1991 LA Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico (Asp confer (reference)

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Music

• Football Album-American Confer (reference)

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Silverstein and Sharp Confer. Credit: NASA.

James Hall (left) a limited resource farmer in Lamont, FL.; Glyen Holmes, NRCS Outreach Coordinator (center); and Vonda Richardson, FAMU, Farm Management Specialist, confer on conservation techniques that Hall incorporated in the conservation plan for his. Credit: Bob Nichols.

[Miss Harvin and Mr. Weaver confer in the stacks]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Confer on board RAdm. Barbey's flagship, 5 January 1944. They are examining a map of New Guinea. Note small propeller used as a paperweight. Credit: NAVY.

Treatment for shock: Truman & Stevenson confer on party future -- news item. Credit: Library of Congress.

Calvin H. McGhee and two women of the Creek Nation, confer with President John F. Kennedy, outside the White House. Credit: Library of Congress.

Field Marshall Smuts and Victoria Cross Winner. Latest official photograph of Field Marshall J.C. Smuts, currently in London to confer with British Prime Minister Churchill on the conduct of the war. He is shown in his office at Union Building, Pretoria,. Credit: Library of Congress.

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. Important business is transcated in the "office" of a mighty YB-17 bomber. The pilot captain and co-pilot lieutenant confer before taking off on a military mission from Langley Field, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Secretary of State, being a person holding an office under the authority of the United States, is precisely within the letter of the description; and if this court is not authorized to issue a writ of mandamus to such an officer, it must be because the law is unconstitutional, and therefore incapable of conferring the authority, and assigning the duties which its words purport to confer and assign. (reference)

Without claiming that these methods and principles are either complete or final, the High Contracting Parties are of opinion that they are well fitted to guide the policy of the League of Nations; and that, if adopted by the industrial communities who are members of the League, and safeguarded in practice by an adequate system of such inspection, they will confer lasting benefits upon the wage-earners of the world. (reference)

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He listened in silence, and finally promised to confer with the physician.

Did you confer with him?

The Emperor does also confer on him some public mark of his favor, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city.

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Health

However, moderate levels of physical activity confer significant health benefits. (references)

Accumulating scientific evidence indicates that physical inactivity is a major risk factor for CVD. Moderate levels of regular physical activity confer significant health benefits. (references)

Although there are relatively few clinical trials of maintenance treatment in elderly patients, continuation of antidepressants has been shown to confer significantly greater protection against recurrence than placebo. (references)

Civil Liberties

Central African Republic

This registration is free and confers official recognition and certain limited benefits, such as customs duty exemption for the importation of vehicles or equipment, but does not confer a general tax exemption. (references)

Economic History

Andorra

Mere birth on Andorran soil does not confer citizenship. (references)

Croatia

Earlier laws on privatization dating back to 1991 and 1996/7 did not confer ownership of land to a private purchaser. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

Under the Criminal Code, those detained for individual common crimes are entitled to immediate access to an attorney and may meet and confer with an attorney at any time. (references)

Indigenous People

Namibia

The Government's authority to confer recognition or withhold it from traditional leaders, even in opposition to local preference, especially was controversial because of the leaders' influence on local events, including local police powers. (references)

Minorities

Cote d'Ivoire

Birth in Ivoirian national territory does not confer citizenship. (references)

Political Economy

Mauritius

The coalition agreement envisages that after three years Sir Anerood Jugnauth (MSM) will become president (after the constitution is amended to confer greater power to that office), handing over the prime ministership to Mr Berenger (MMM) to complete the five-year term of office. (references)

Women

Algeria

Only males are able to confer citizenship on their children. (references)

Lebanon

Citizen widows may confer citizenship on their minor children. (references)

Worker Rights

Ukraine

National status and registration confer the right to acquire property, to maintain bank accounts, and to enter legally binding agreements. (references)

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Expressions using "confer": confer a benefit ♦ confer a degree ♦ confer a degree upon ♦ confer a diploma ♦ confer a doctorate on ♦ confer an obligation ♦ confer distinction upon ♦ confer privately ♦ confer rights ♦ confer the doctor's degree upon ♦ confer with ♦ confer with smb. on smth.. Additional references.

Ending with "confer": shell-confer.

Albanian

këshillohem (consult), diskutoj (assess, canvass, consult, counsel, debate, deliberate, discuss, dispute, expostulate, moot, negotiate, quarrel, reason, talk over, think over, thrash out), akordoj (accord, tune, tune up, vouchsafe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منح (accord, afford, allow, award, bestow, bless with, concede, contribute to, donate, endow, endue, favor with, favour with, gift with, give, grant, granting, present, presentation), ‏ورث (bequeath, demise, devise, entail, inheritance, will), ‏تشاور (conference, conferment, consult, consultation, counsel, deliberation, go into a huddle), ‏تداول (circulation, conference, counsel, currency, deliberate, deliberation, negotiate), ‏تباحث. (various references)

Bulgarian 

удостоявам с (vouchsafe), обсъждам (agitate, argue, bethink, consult, deliberate, discuss, parley, powwow, reason, revolve, talk about, talk over, ventilate), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references)

Chinese 

賚 (bestow, thief), 賜 (bestow, grant), 貺 (bestow), � '給 , 授與 (grant), 商谈 (Conferred, Conferring), 商談 (discuss, engage in talks). (various references)

Czech

udìlit (award, bestow, cap, give, grant, impart, invest, vest), radit se (deliberate, go into a huddle), konferovat (compere, emcee, host). (various references)

Danish

rådføre sig (discuss with), konferere (discuss with), jf. (conf.). (various references)

Dutch

vgl. (conf.), vergelijk (conf.), verg. (conf.), een bespreking houden (discuss with), beraadslagen (deliberate). (various references)

Farsi 

مراجعه کردن (Refer), مشورت کردن (Consult), همرایزنی کردن , اعطاء کردن (Admit, Allow). (various references)

Finnish

neuvotella (consult, deal, deal with, discuss, handle, negotiate, treat). (various references)

French

conférer (collate, compare). (various references)

German

verhandeln (argue, deal with, discuss, hear, judge, negotiate, parley, trade, try), beraten (advise, advise on, counsel, deliberate, discuss, give advice, guide, to advise on). (various references)

Greek 

συσκέπτομαι (commune, consult), χορηγώ (accord, administer, allow, furnish, grant, minister, sponsor). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תיעץ (consult), ל�"ע� יק (accord, award, bestow, endow, grant, present), ל�"� חיל (bequeath). (various references)

Hungarian

tanácskozik (to advise, to be in council, to commune, to consult, to deliberate, to meet in council, to take legal advice), adományoz (award, dispense, donate, endow, give, to award, to commend, to confer, to donate, to endow, to grant), átruház (assign, convey, depute, devolve, hand over, quitclaim, to alien, to alienate, to assign, to consign, to demise, to devolve, to make over, to release, to transfer). (various references)

Indonesian

menganugerahkan (award, bestow), berembuk (discuss), berbahas. (various references)

Italian

conferire (award, bestow, confer with, give). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

諮る (to confer, to consult with), 贈る (to award to, to confer on, to give to, to send). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), おくる (to award to, to confer on, to dispatch, to give to, to live a life, to see off, to send, to spend a period of time, to take or escort), し�"にくらい�'おくる (to confer a posthumous rank), く� さる (to confer, to give), はかる (to attempt, to confer, to consult with, to deceive, to design, to devise, to measure, to plan, to plot, to refer A to B, to survey, to take in, to time, to weigh). (various references)

Korean 

수여하십시�". (various references)

Manx

goaill coyrle ry-cheilley, bronney (conferment). (various references)

Pig Latin

onfercay

Portuguese

conferenciar (parley, talk). (various references)

Romanian

consfãtui (deliberate), conferi (award, concede, vouchsafe), transmite (assign, bestow, carry, circulate, communicate, consign to, convey, deliver, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit), sfãtui (admonish, advise, chat, consult, counsel, deliberate, exhort, recommend, Rede, rule, school, tip), se sfãtui (advise, hold counsel with smb.), se consulta (advise, consult with, deliberate), gratifica (grace, gratify, reward), delibera despre, acorda (accommodate, accord, adjust, afford, agree, allow, attach, attune, award, dovetail, extend, fit, give, grant, invest, key, lend, offer, pay, pitch, place, reconcile, set, tally, temper, vouchsafe). (various references)

Russian 

совещаться (confer with, deliberate, hold a consultation, lay up heads together, powwow), обсуждать (canvass, confer together, debate, discuss, discussing, dispute, moot, take up, talk over, think over, traverse, ventilate), даровать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

većati (deliberate), savetovati (admonish, advise, consult), dodeliti (allocate, allot, assign, award, bestow, endue, give, grant, vest). (various references)

Spanish

conferir (award, bestow, vest), conferenciar (confabulate, lecture, powwow). (various references)

Swedish

tilldela (administer, allocate, allot, assign, award, impart, inflict, lot, mete), skänka (accord, afford, bestow, donate, gift, give, give away, impart, lend), konferera (parley), överlägga (consult, deliberate). (various references)

Turkish

vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), sunmak (bring in, dish, dish up, emcee, exhibit, furnish, go over, go through, help smb. to smth., hold forth, initiate, introduce, lay, Lodge, offer, pass in, pitch, prefer, present, proffer, put forward, put in, put to, put up, render, report, represent, serve up, shew, submit, table, tender), görüşmek (approach, argue, canvass, consult, contact, discuss, get into touch, have a talk with, interview, keep in touch, meet, negotiate, parley, powwow, reason, see, talk), danışmak (advise with, consult, debate, deliberate, take one's advice, turn to). (various references)

Turkmen 

maslahatlaюmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

радитися (advise, consult, give advice to, powwow), обговорювати (air, bandy about, canvass, consider, debate, dispute, moot, natter, parley, reason, ventilate), наділяти (clothe, deal out, endue, gird, portion, vest), дарувати (bestow, donate, entail, gift, give, grant, handsel, present). (various references)

Welsh

ymgynghori (consult). (various references)

arrogans, arrogantem, arrogantes, arrogantia, cf., cfr., circumponensque, circumponentes, circumpositae, circumposuit, confer, conferatur, conferre, conloquebantur, conloquentes, conloquere, conloqui, defer, deferant, deferat, deferebant, deferebat, deferebatur, deferens, deferent, deferentes, deferes, deferet, deferetur, deferre, deferrent, deferrentur, deferte, delatae, delatura, delaturam, delatus, detulerant, detulerat, detulerunt, detuli, detulissent, detulisset, detulisti, detulit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "confer": conferee, conferees, conference, conferences, conferencing, conferencings, conferential, conferment, conferments, conferrable, conferral, conferrals, conferred, conferrence, conferrences, conferrer, conferrers, conferring, confers, conferva, confervae, confervas. (additional references)

Words containing "confer": nonconference, nonconferences, teleconference, teleconferenced, teleconferences, teleconferencing, teleconferencings, videoconference, videoconferences, videoconferencing, videoconferencings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Confer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canfor, Cinefex, Clonfert, Cobner, coefer, Cofer, cofir, coifer, colfer, comfar, concer, Conefo, coner, Conero, confa, confen, confere, conferm, Confex, confi, confir, Conford, confree, confu, confur, conjer, conler, conser, conter, conuer, conwere, Conyer, Cosner, Konpfler, ocfer, ocner. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: crone, force, recon.

-2 letters: cero, cone, core, corf, corn, fern, fore, froe, once.

-3 letters: con, cor, eon, ern, fen, fer, foe, fon, for, fro, nor, one, orc, ore, rec, ref, roc, roe.

-4 letters: ef, en, er, ne, no, oe, of, on, or, re.

+1 letter: coinfer, confers, conifer, cornfed, enforce, frounce.

+2 letters: coinfers, conferee, conferva, confider, confiner, confrere, confuter, conifers, enforced, enforcer, enforces, falconer, fencerow, florence, forensic, fornices, frounced, frounces, infector, unforced.

+3 letters: coffering, cofounder, conferees, conferral, conferred, conferrer, confervae, confervas, confessor, confiders, configure, confiners, confirmed, confiteor, confiture, conformed, conformer, confreres, confuters, cornfield, cuneiform, deforcing, enforcers, enforcing, falconers, fencerows, ferrocene, florences, flouncier, forensics, fornicate, frescoing, gerfalcon, infectors, offscreen, reconfirm, reenforce, refection, reinforce, unfrocked.