Reference
(n.) The act of referring, or the state of being referred |
Reference
(n.) That which refers to something |
Reference
(n.) Relation |
Reference
(n.) One who, or that which, is referred to. |
Reference
(n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another. |
Reference
(n.) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred. |
Reference
(n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision. |
Reference
(n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. |
Reference
(n.) Appeal. |
Re-sign
(v. t.) To affix one's signature to, a second time |
Re sign
(n.) Resignation. |
Sign
(n.) That by which anything is made known or represented |
Sign
(n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity |
Sign
(n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end |
Sign
(n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing |
Sign
(n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea |
Sign
(n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought |
Sign
(n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known. |
Sign
(n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb. |
Sign
(n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. |
Sign
(n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on |
Sign
(n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac. |
Sign
(n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them |
Sign
(n.) An objective evidence of disease |
Sign
(n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. |
Sign
(n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual |
Sign
(n.) To represent by a sign |
Sign
(n.) To make a sign upon |
Sign
(n.) To affix a signature to |
Sign
(n.) To assign or convey formally |
Sign
(n.) To mark |
Sign
(v. i.) To be a sign or omen. |
Sign
(v. i.) To make a sign or signal |
Sign
(v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation. |
Babinski
Babinski reflex
Babinski sign | extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front, normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons |
reference
consultation | the act of referring or consulting, reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer |
| reference grid | a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image or a map |
signboard
sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted, the highway was lined with signboards |
| frame of reference frame | a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning |
coordinate system
frame of reference
reference system
reference frame | a system that uses coordinates to establish position |
reference
denotation
extension | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression, the class of objects that an expression refers to, the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
| reference | the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to, he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes |
inertial reference frame
inertial frame | a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid |
address computer address
reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
| sign manual | the signature of a sovereign on an official document |
reference book
reference reference work
book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
| reference manual | a manual containing information organized in a summary manner |
| sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
| character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
citation cite
acknowledgment credit reference mention quotation | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage, the student's essay failed to list several important citations, the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book, the article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
| mention reference | a remark that calls attention to something or someone, she made frequent mention of her promotion, there was no mention of it, the speaker made several references to his wife |
signal
signaling
sign | any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message, signals from the boat suddenly stopped |
| sign | a public display of a message, he posted signs in all the shop windows |
| street sign | a sign visible from the street |
| high sign | a silent signal of warning or recognition, she started to speak but he gave her the high sign |
pound
pound sign | a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) |
| sign | a character indicating a relation between quantities, don't forget the minus sign |
| equal sign | a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal |
| plus sign | a sign indicating the operation of addition |
| minus sign | a sign indicating the operation of subtraction |
| radical sign | a sign indicating the extraction of a root |
dollar mark
dollar sign | a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars |
dollar
dollar mark dollar sign | a symbol of commercialism or greed, he worships the almighty dollar, the dollar sign means little to him |
percent sign
percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by |
sign language
signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL
American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
| sign | a gesture that is part of a sign language |
anatomical reference
anatomical | an expression that relates to anatomy |
reference point
point of reference
reference | an indicator that orients you generally, it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved |
| reference source | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to, he carried an armful of references back to his desk, he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
| V sign | a sign (for victory), making a V with the index and middle fingers |
| sign of the cross | a gesture with the right hand moving to form a cross, used by Catholics as a profession of faith |
| sign | a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified, The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary--de Saussure |
augury
sign
foretoken
preindication | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come, he hoped it was an augury, it was a sign from God |
| sign industry | an industry that produces signs |
sign of the zodiac
star sign
sign
mansion
house
planetary house | (astrology) one of equal areas into which the zodiac is divided |
| sign painter | someone who paints signs and billboards etc. |
polarity
sign | having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges), he got the polarity of the battery reversed, charges of opposite sign |
| Jacquemier's sign | a purplish discoloration of the mucous membrane of the vagina that occurs early in pregnancy |
| Kernig's sign | symptom of meningitis, patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings |
| sign | (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease, there were no signs of asphyxiation |
| vital sign | sign of life, usually an indicator of a person's general physical condition, he was still alive but his vital signs were weak |
acrocyanosis
Raynaud's sign | cyanosis of the extremities, can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion |
| epoch date of reference | (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded |