Synonyms of the word

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.

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…

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

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.

book

• n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material,…
• n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published…
• n. A major division of a long work.
• n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
• n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
• n. (theater) The script of a musical.
• n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
• n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
• n. (law) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class…
• n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
• n. (poker slang) four of a kind.
• n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
• n. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
• v. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
• v. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence…
• v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
• v. To record bets as bookmaker.
• v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake.

character

• n. A being involved in the action of a story.
• n. A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.
• n. A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
• n. Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
• n. A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially…
• n. A written or printed symbol, or letter.
• n. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
• n. (computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing…
• n. (informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
• n. (mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
• n. Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
• n. (dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
• n. (dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.
• v. (obsolete) To write (using characters); To describe.

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.

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

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.

consultation

• n. the act of consulting.
• n. a conference for the exchange of information and advice.
• n. An appointment or meeting with a professional person, such as a doctor.

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.

denotation

• n. The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes.
• n. (logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol;…
• n. (philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word.
• n. (semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol.
• n. (semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear…
• n. (computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages,…
• n. (media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often…

extension

• n. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in length or breadth;…
• n. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
• n. A part of a building that has been extended from the original.
• n. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; —…
• n. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay…
• n. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight…
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
• n. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
• n. (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
• n. (computing) A file extension.
• n. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
• n. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
• n. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.

indicator

• n. A pointer or index that indicates something.
• n. A meter or gauge.
• n. The needle or dial on such a meter.
• n. (chemistry) Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance,…
• n. (ecology) A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
• n. (economics) A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
• n. (Britain, Australia, automotive) A trafficator (dated definition); each of the flashing lights on each…
• n. A bird, the honeyguide.

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.

meaning

• n. The symbolic value of something.
• n. The significance of a thing.
• n. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
• n. (obsolete) Intention.
• v. present participle of mean.
• adj. Having a (specified) intention.
• adj. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.

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…

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…

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.

publication

• n. The act of publishing printed or other matter.
• n. An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution.
• n. The communication of information to the general public etc.

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.

recommendation

• n. An act of recommending.
• n. That which is recommended.
• n. A commendation or endorsement.

remark

• n. Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
• n. The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something worth attention…
• n. A casual observation, comment, or statement.
• n. (engraving) Alternative form of remarque.
• v. (intransitive) To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
• v. (transitive) To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to…
• v. (transitive) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
• v. (transitive) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a…
• n. Alternative spelling of re-mark.
• v. Alternative spelling of re-mark.

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.

testimonial

• n. A statement, especially one given under oath; testimony.
• n. A written recommendation of someone's worth or character.
• n. A tribute given in appreciation of someone's service etc.
• n. (soccer) A match played in tribute to a particular player (who sometimes receives a proportion of the…
• adj. Serving as testimony.

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.