Refer (verb)
To direct the attention of.
“The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.”
Refer (verb)
To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
“He referred the matter to the principal.”
“to refer a patient to a psychiatrist”
Refer (verb)
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
“He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.”
Refer (verb)
To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
“To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.”
Refer (verb)
To be referential to another element in a sentence.
Refer (verb)
To address a specific location in computer memory.
Refer (verb)
Required to resit an examination.
“Smith’s marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.”
Defer (verb)
To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
Defer (verb)
After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team’s choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
Defer (verb)
To delay, to wait.
Defer (verb)
To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
Defer (verb)
To render, to offer.
Defer (verb)
put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone
“they deferred the decision until February”
Defer (verb)
(of a judge) postpone (a sentence) so that the circumstances or conduct of the defendant can be further assessed
“the judge deferred sentence until 5 April for background reports”
Defer (verb)
postpone the conscription of (someone)
“he was no longer deferred from the draft”
Defer (verb)
submit to or acknowledge the merit of
“he deferred to Tim’s superior knowledge”