Reflected

Definition

reference /'refǝrǝns/ n ၁။ ~ (to sb/ sth) (က) [U] ရည္ၫႊန္း ေျပာဆိုျခင္း။ စပ္၍ေျပာဆိုျခင္း။ I'd hoped she would talk about her books, but she only made passing reference to them. ❍ Try to avoid making any reference to his illness. (ခ) [C] ရည္ၫႊန္းခ်က္။ His jokes include many topical references. ❍ The book is full of references to places I know. ၂။ ~ (to sb/ sth) ေမးျမန္းျခင္း။ She should not have done it without reference to me first. ၃။ [U] ကိုးကားျခင္း။ မီွျငမ္းျခင္း။ Keep this list of numbers near the phone for easy reference. ❍ The guidebook may be useful for future reference. ၄။ [C] ~ (to sb/ sth) ကိုးကားခ်က္။ က်မ္းကိုး။ There is a list of references at the end of each chapter. See also CROSS-REFERENCE ၅။ [C] အၫႊန္း။ (ေျမပံု)ၫႊန္း။ a map reference ❍ Each book in the library carries a reference mark on the cover. ၆။ [U] ( fml ) ဆက္သြယ္မႈ။ ႏီွးႏႊယ္မႈ။ These facts bear/ have no reference to (ie are not relevant to ) the matter under discussion. ❍ I am writing with/ in reference to (ie about) your job application. See also FRAME OF REFERENCE, TERMS OF REFERENCE ၇။ [C] ( abbr ref ) ( commerce ) ရည္ၫႊန္းခ်က္။ ရည္ၫႊန္းစာ (အမွတ္)။ Please quote our reference when replying. ၈။ [C] ေထာက္ခံခ်က္။ ေထာက္ခံစာ။ give/ quote sb/ sb's name as a reference ❍ You can use your present employer as a reference. ❍ provide/supply sb with a reference ❍ She came to us with excellent references. Compare TESTIMONIAL ၁ ❏ reference book n ရည္ၫႊန္းစာအုပ္။ ❏ reference library n ရည္ၫႊန္းစာအုပ္မ်ား။ ရည္ၫႊန္း စာအုပ္စင္။

Examples

1. [reference to] : The title is apparently a reference to the singer’s brother.
2. [make a/no reference to] : He politely made no reference to my untidy appearance.
3. [passing reference] : Her speech contained only a passing reference to tax reform.
4. The sentences are numbered for ease of reference.
5. The reference section of the library
6. [take up a reference] : I don’t think I’ve got the job – they haven’t taken up my references.
7. Start your walk at map reference 2D.
8. [reference number] : Please quote your customer reference number if you need to contact us.
9. His writing is full of obscure literary references.
10. There was a long list of references at the end of the paper.