Used in a Sentence

references

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for references.

Editorial note

The gist of the references is that loneliness is a problem for old adults, and religious community helps them.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of references gathered in one view.

noun

The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.

noun

A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.

noun

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for references.

noun

The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.

noun

A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.

noun

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.

noun

(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.

Example sentences

1

The gist of the references is that loneliness is a problem for old adults, and religious community helps them.

2

Wouldn't that still mean reference counting, i.e., it's not accessible if it has 0 references?

3

Curiosity alone or a few references in some article or wherever won't drive a used price that high!

4

Compare that to: Iterator find(T& value) const; This function signature accepts only non-const references (unless T is const).

5

Thanks for the feedback, when initially creating the performance area there weren't a lot of great references.

6

The continuous references about how many books he has and reads also threw me off.

7

If it's a second option, who's in charge of counting references to these objects?

8

For pointers, however, the final keyword in Java limits the ability to change the variable holding the pointer, not to what it references.

9

The article of course references both AirBnB and Uber, two companies who in many instances outright violated the law in their respective industries.

10

I highlighted more general skills like SQL programming and downplayed other language specific references like VB5/6.

11

The loneliness concern doesn't seem to resonate with the commenters here, so I dug in to the article's footnoted references.

12

Here's a (very naive) algorithm that doesn't count references: 1.

Quote examples

1

The article's statement that "people are lonelier than ever before" is not supported by the references (except insofar as the population is aging, and the elderly are lonelier than the middle-aged).

2

I'm no expert in the GIL, but pretty much every widely adopted Garbage Collection algorithm requires a "stop-the-world" phase where object references can't be changed.

3

If you don't know the type which a name references (or whether it is nil), you have to figure that out before you call any methods on it, in an "external" way.

4

He faked his own references (via fax at that time) to get in the door, and when people made reference to university he just sidestepped the question or gave vague "yeah" type answers as he had not attended but had left school at the minimum legal age and become self employed (and failed a couple of times).

Proper noun examples

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(References, by contrast, can never be reseated.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use references in a sentence?

The gist of the references is that loneliness is a problem for old adults, and religious community helps them.

What does references mean?

The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.

What part of speech is references?

references is commonly used as noun.