Synonyms of the word

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.

advert

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

assort

• v. (transitive) To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
• v. (intransitive) To be of a kind with.
• v. (intransitive) To be associated with; to consort with.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.

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.

class

• n. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
• n. (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three…
• n. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
• n. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
• n. (countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
• n. A series of classes covering a single subject.
• n. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A…
• n. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
• n. (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon…
• n. Best of its kind.
• n. (mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
• n. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those…
• n. (object-oriented programming) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state),…
• n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
• v. (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
• v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
• v. (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
• adj. (Ireland, Britain, slang) great; fabulous.

classify

• v. to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
• v. to declare something a secret, especially a government secret.

concern

• n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before…
• n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
• n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
• n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of;…
• v. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
• v. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

consult

• n. (obsolete) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation.
• n. (obsolete) the result of consultation; determination; decision.
• n. (obsolete) A council; a meeting for consultation.
• n. (obsolete) Agreement; concert.
• n. (US) A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
• v. (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
• v. (intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
• v. (transitive) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person).
• v. (transitive) To refer to (something) for information.
• v. (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliberate upon; to take for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

denote

• v. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
• v. (transitive) To make overt.
• v. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

intend

• v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
• v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
• v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
• v. To strain; make tense.
• v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
• v. To apply with energy.
• v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
• v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
• v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

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.

pertain

• v. (intransitive) to belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of.
• v. (intransitive) to relate, to refer, be relevant to.
• v. (intransitive) To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable.

relate

• v. (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
• v. (transitive) To give an association.
• v. (transitive) To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
• v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
• v. (intransitive) To interact.
• v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
• v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with, understand.
• v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

research

• n. (uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications,…
• n. (countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
• v. (transitive) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
• v. (intransitive) To make an extensive investigation into.
• v. (transitive) To search again.

send

• v. (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
• v. (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
• v. To bring to a certain condition.
• v. (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
• v. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
• v. (nautical) To pitch.
• n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

sort

• n. A general type.
• n. Manner; form of being or acting.
• n. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
• n. (dated) Group, company.
• n. (informal) A person.
• n. An act of sorting.
• n. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
• n. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size…
• n. (mathematics) A type.
• n. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
• n. (obsolete) A pair; a set; a suit.
• v. (transitive) To separate according to certain criteria.
• v. (transitive) To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
• v. (Britain) To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out.
• v. (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
• v. (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to…
• v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.