Reference and Shape

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

• Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline. )
  • usage: "he could barely make out their shapes"
  • synonyms: form, configuration, contour, conformation
• The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.
  • usage: "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"
  • synonyms: form
• Alternative names for the body of a human being.
  • usage: "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
  • synonyms: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
• A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept.
  • usage: "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life"
  • synonyms: embodiment
• The visual appearance of something or someone.
  • usage: "the delicate cast of his features"
  • synonyms: form, cast
• The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape'.
  • synonyms: condition
• The supreme headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe.
  • synonyms: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
• A perceptual structure.
  • usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
  • synonyms: form, pattern

verb

• Shape or influence; give direction to.
  • usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
  • synonyms: determine, mold, influence, regulate
• Make something, usually for a specific function.
  • usage: "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
  • synonyms: form, work, mold, mould, forge
• Give shape or form to.
  • usage: "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"
  • synonyms: form

• (n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
• (n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
• (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
• (n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
• (v.i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• (n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
• (n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
• (n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
• (n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
• (n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
• (n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
• (n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.