Reference and Effect

noun

• A remark that calls attention to something or someone.
  • usage: "she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife"
  • synonyms: mention
• A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage.
  • usage: "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
  • synonyms: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, mention, quotation
• An indicator that orients you generally.
  • usage: "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
  • synonyms: reference point, point of reference
• A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts.
  • usage: "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"
  • synonyms: reference book, reference work, book of facts
• A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability.
  • usage: "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively"
  • synonyms: character, character reference
• The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to.
  • usage: "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"
  • synonyms: denotation, extension
• The act of referring or consulting.
  • usage: "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
  • synonyms: consultation
• A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to.
  • usage: "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
  • synonyms: source
• Computer science. ( the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored)
  • synonyms: address, computer address
• The relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to.
  • usage: "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"

verb

• Refer to.
  • usage: "he referenced his colleagues' work"
  • synonyms: cite

• (n.) One who or that which, is referred to.
• (n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court.
• (n.) Relation; regard; respect.
• (n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.
• (n.) Appeal.
• (n.) That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
• (n.) A work or a passage in a work, to which one is referred.
• (n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another.
• (n.) The act of referring or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

noun

• A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.
  • usage: "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
  • synonyms: consequence, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
• An outward appearance.
  • usage: "he made a good impression"; "I wanted to create an impression of success"; "she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting"
  • synonyms: impression
• An impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived. )
  • usage: "he just did it for effect"
• The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
  • synonyms: essence, burden, core, gist
• Of a law. ( having legal validity)
  • usage: "the law is still in effect"
  • synonyms: force
• A symptom caused by an illness or a drug.
  • usage: "the effects of sleep loss"; "the effect of the anesthetic"

verb

• Produce.
  • usage: "The scientists set up a shock wave"
  • synonyms: effectuate, set up
• Act so as to bring into existence.
  • usage: "effect a change"

• (n.) Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
• (n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
• (n.) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
• (v.t.) To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
• (n.) Manifestation; expression; sign.
• (n.) In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
• (n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
• (v.t.) To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
• (n.) Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
• (n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
• (n.) The purport; the sum and substance.

(DoD) The physical or behavioral state of a system that results from an action, a set of actions, or another effect.
(DoD) The result, outcome, or consequence of an action.
(DoD) A change to a condition, behavior, or degree of freedom.