Referee in a sentence as a noun

"Looks like the referee has to jump in here.

Why not start the football game and make the referees take notice at how great you are?

Designate a referee to say "One at a time," "Take that off-line," or "So what?

Designate a referee to sayIf the guy who _called_ the meeting isn't doing this, it's time to leave.

The referee notifies Shin and Heidemann that the clock will be set to a full one second.

If the clock doesn't start, the referee will stop the bout, debug the technology, and reset the clock.

I know an eminent chemist who will not referee for Elsevier--he was ahead of his time.

First of all, you don't really "sign up" to do it; typically editors pick someone they know and just ask them to referee.

For example, for me a referee report might well take anywhere between five minutes and twenty hours.

I love a feel-good story as much as anyone else when it's real... but this situation throws up more red flags than a well-bribed soccer referee.

Eventually, the referee reset the clock back to one second!Finally, the German fencer scored a single touch and was declared the victor.

Referee in a sentence as a verb

Perhaps the referee will get a little box that, when a button is pressed, simultaneously shouts "Allez" in an authentic French accent and starts the clock.

But increasingly I'm turning down requests to referee for such publishers, in favor of open access journals and conferences.

The opportunity cost in refereeing a paper is a subsidy to publishing companies--one I can't afford to pay.

The government should be a referee to keep the playing field level, but usually the government is busy transferring resources from the general public to insider friends and groups.

Here, I'll just let the Florida Supreme Court describe it: Thompson has submitted over fifty filings directly with this Court, all of which have either been forwarded to the referee, dismissed, or denied.

He wanted to give the concept a positive spin by analogizing it to a referee pointing out dirty play, vs. alternatives like "leaker" and "informant" that have negative connotations.

If refereeing paid substantial money, where other informal methods of participating in the mathematical community do not, I think this would lead to an odd system of incentives.

> Unfortunately for Shin, the clock never started after the referee signaled to restart the match, giving Heidemann more than one second to land the winning touch.> the timekeeper for the event was a 15 year old British volunteerWow, this is just absurd.

Sometimes invalid criticisms are made by referees who are jealous, threatened, or merely lazy, but the editor has so many other submissions to deal with that he/she won't take the time to evaluate and understand the referee recommendations.

When you write a paper you choose your target journal, and writing for Nature means you need to avoid rocking the boat too much, because they receive so many submissions that one minor criticism from a referee will torpedo your paper, even if that criticism is demonstrably wrong.

A well-written and coherent paper on a theory an experiment testing that theory might be considered "too long" or "too confusing" by a referee, and the editor will jump on that comment and demand the paper be split into two, sometimes only one of which they feel like publishing in their journal.

Referee definitions

noun

(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

noun

someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

See also: reviewer reader

noun

an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case

verb

be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

See also: umpire

verb

evaluate professionally a colleague's work