Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) reference, consultation (the act of referring or consulting) "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) address, computer address, reference ((computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored)
S: (n) 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"