Refer

Definition

refer /r'fɜ:(r)/ v (-rr-) ❏ refer to sb/ sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ရည္ၫႊန္းသည္။ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုသည္။ The victims were not referred to by name. ❍ This incident in his childhood is never referred to again. ၂။ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ ရည္ၫႊန္း သည္။ ရည္ရြယ္ေျပာဆိုသည္။ This paragraph refers to the events of last year. ❍ When I said some people are stupid, I wasn't referring to you. ၃။ မီွျငမ္းသည္။ ၾကည့္သည္။ ေမးသည္။ refer to a dictionary/ an expert ❍ The speaker referred to his notes repeatedly. ❏ referral /r'fɜ:rǝl/ n (က) [U] လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးျခင္း။ the referral of such cases to a doctor. (ခ) [C] လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးလိုက္ သူ၊ အမႈတြဲ။ several referrals from the clinic. ❏ refer to sb/ sth as sth [ PHRV ] ရည္ၫႊန္းေျပာဆိုသည္။ He always refers to his wife as ‘my other half’. ❏ refer sb/ sth to sb/ sth [ PHRV ] လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးသည္။ လႊဲအပ္သည္။ ရည္ၫႊန္းသည္။ The doctor referred me to a psychiatrist. ❍ The case was referred to the Court of Appeal. ❍ I was referred to the manager/ the enquiry office. ❍ The reader is referred to page 13 for a fuller account of this affair. ❍ May I refer you to my letter of 14 May?

Examples

1. She referred to the subject several times during her speech.
2. Jack was careful not to refer to the woman by name.
3. [refer to someone/something as] : Even as a boy he referred to his father as Steve.
4. [refer back to something] : I would like to refer back to something I said in my introduction.
5. These notes refer to the case of a teenage murderer.
6. The term ‘groupware’ refers to software designed to be used by several computer users at once.
7. The doctor referred me to a skin specialist.
8. Her case was referred to the Court of Appeal.
9. Please refer to our catalogue for details of all our products.