Synonyms of the word

cite

• v. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
• v. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
• v. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
• n. (informal) a citation.

abduce

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part;…
• v. (transitive) To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.

acknowledge

• v. (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
• v. To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority…
• v. To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or an favour).
• v. To notify receipt, as of a letter.
• v. To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in…

acknowledgment

• n. The act of acknowledging; admission.
• n. The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the…
• n. An award or other expression or token of appreciation.
• n. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
• n. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received…
• n. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful…
• n. An owning as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
• n. (law) The act of a man admitting a child as his own.
• n. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or…

adduce

• v. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement…

advert

• n. (Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
• v. To turn attention.
• v. To call attention, refer; construed with to.

annotation

• n. a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
• n. a comment added to a text.
• n. the process of writing such comment or commentary.
• n. (computing) metadata added to a document or program.
• n. (genetics) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

citation

• n. An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
• n. The paper containing such summons or notice.
• n. The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his/her own words.
• n. An entry in a list of source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
• n. The passage or words quoted; quotation.
• n. Enumeration; mention.
• n. A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
• n. A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.

cite

• v. To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
• v. To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
• v. To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
• n. (informal) a citation.

compose

• v. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
• v. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
• v. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create…
• v. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
• v. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
• v. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
• v. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
• v. (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

credit

• v. (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
• v. (transitive, accounting) To add to an account (confer debit.).
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
• v. (transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
• n. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition and respect.
• n. (countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
• n. (television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or…
• n. (uncountable, law, business) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's…
• n. The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
• n. (uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing…
• n. (accounting) An addition to certain accounts.
• n. (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
• n. A source of value, distinction or honour.
• n. An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
• n. (uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
• n. (countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.

evidence

• n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
• n. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
• n. One who bears witness.
• v. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

indite

• v. (transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.
• v. (transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.
• v. To dictate; to prompt.
• v. (obsolete) To invite or ask.
• v. (obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
• n. (mineralogy) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

ingeminate

• v. To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
• adj. redoubled.
• adj. reiterated.

iterate

• v. (computing) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.
• v. (computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action.
• v. (archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
• n. (mathematics) a function that iterates.
• adj. (obsolete) Said or done again; repeated.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

mention

• n. A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase…
• v. To make a short reference to something.
• v. (philosophy, linguistics) To utter an word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as…

name

• n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
• n. Reputation.
• n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
• n. A person (or legal person).
• n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
• n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
• n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
• v. (transitive) To give a name to.
• v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
• v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
• v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
• v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
• n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

notation

• n. (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs,…
• n. (uncountable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or…
• n. (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

notice

• n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
• n. (countable) A written or printed announcement.
• n. (countable) A formal notification or warning.
• n. (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee…
• n. (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
• n. (uncountable) Prior notification.
• n. (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the presence of; observe.
• v. (transitive) To detect; to perceive with the mind.

pen

• n. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
• n. A place to confine a person; a prison cell, though likelier an abbreviation of penitentiary.
• n. (baseball) The bullpen.
• v. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
• n. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used…
• n. (figuratively) A writer, or his style.
• n. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
• n. A light pen.
• n. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
• n. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
• n. (poetic) A wing.
• v. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
• n. A female swan.
• n. penalty.

prove

• v. (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
• v. (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
• v. (copulative) To turn out to be.
• v. (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To experience.
• v. (printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
• v. simple past tense of proove.

quotation

• n. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from…
• n. The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.

quote

• n. A quotation, statement attributed to someone else.
• n. A quotation mark.
• n. A summary of work to be done with a set price.
• n. A price set for a financial security or commodity.
• v. (transitive) To repeat someone’s exact words.
• v. (transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
• v. (Commerce, transitive) To name the current price, notably of a financial security.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate verbally or by equivalent means the start of a quotation.
• v. (archaic) To observe, to take account of.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

reference

• n. (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
• n. A measurement one can compare to.
• n. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
• n. A reference work.
• n. (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to…
• n. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source…
• n. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
• n. (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing…
• n. (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in a web page…
• n. (obsolete) Appeal.
• v. To refer to, to make reference to.
• v. To mention, to cite.

reiterate

• v. (transitive) To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.
• v. (transitive) to say or do (something) repeatedly.
• adj. Reiterated; repeated.
• n. (botany) A tree with vertical branches alongside the main trunk and which continue to grow upwards.

repeat

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
• v. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
• v. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
• v. (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
• v. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method…
• n. An iteration; a repetition.
• n. A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial…
• n. Patterns of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.

restate

• v. to state again (without changing).
• v. to state differently; to rephrase.

retell

• v. To tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard.

show

• v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
• v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
• v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
• v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
• v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
• v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
• v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
• n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
• n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
• n. (countable) A demonstration.
• n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
• n. (countable) A movie.
• n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
• n. A project or presentation.
• n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
• n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
• n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
• n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

summon

• v. (transitive) To call people together; to convene.
• v. (transitive) To ask someone to come; to send for.
• v. (transitive) To use a personal skill.
• v. (fantasy, transitive) To create a resource by magic.
• v. (law, transitive) To order someone to appear in court, especially by issuing a summons.
• n. call, command, order.

summons

• n. A call to do something, especially to come.
• n. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
• n. (military) A demand for surrender.
• v. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon.

testify

• v. To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.
• v. To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.

write

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
• v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To send written information to.
• v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
• v. (intransitive) To be an author.
• v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
• v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
• v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
• v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
• n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.