Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or having reference; relating to or containing a reference or references.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective referring or pointing to something
Etymologies
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Examples
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The less obvious errors of grammatical and syntactical misuse remain, as do errors in referential pronouns, among others.
What’s a Story « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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The less obvious errors of grammatical and syntactical misuse remain, as do errors in referential pronouns, among others.
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The melodramatic and bloodless death of FFVII's flower girl has been lambasted for a decade in forums, webcomics, and in every arena where being cynically self-referential is cool.
Archive 2008-03-01 SVGL 2008
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Much of science is referential, that is how a body of knowledge is built that leads to theories in science.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge 2009
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Bear with me for a moment for technical details on a relational database management system (RDBMS) like Oracle, which Colorado is using for its voter registration database, and how the problems outlined in Kolwicz's letter are prevented by what is known as referential integrity (RI).
Mail Ballots - cost, convenience, voter turnout, and other lies 2008
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The first can be called referential because the ad relies on a referent from the larger social world, something that is used to lend its meaning to the product.
Stephen Ducat: Propaganda 101: How to Decode Political Ads 2008
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Disinterestedness (here rendered as a "specificity of aesthetic discourse" that slides away from a "purity of aesthetic experience") is always a detour on the way to what I have termed here sociological reduction, but which one may more generally term the referential horizon of the human. 5
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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There is plenty of whimsy, but it never gets cute, precious, or self-referential, which is quite an achievement.
Archive 2006-07-01 sfmike 2006
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There is plenty of whimsy, but it never gets cute, precious, or self-referential, which is quite an achievement.
ZEN at the Magic sfmike 2006
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A little thing called referential transparency, for one.
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