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What is the noun for referents?

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reference
  1. (literary) A relationship or relation (to something).
  2. A measurement one can compare to.
  3. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted
  4. A reference work.
  5. (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
  6. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
  7. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
  8. (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
  9. (programming) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in a web page such as ™ or €.
  10. (obsolete) Appeal.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “I searched for a reference to the quote listed in the article, but found none.”
      “He detailed his hypothesis on genomes, with reference to Darwin.”
      “Alexia's reference from her ex-employer would attest to her being an expert on economics and climate change.”
referee
  1. (sports) An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.
  2. A person who settles a dispute.
  3. A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone.
  4. An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “For a change, the video referee ruled against Saints and the try was rightly allowed to stand.”
      “To start with, the referee has to be asked about the customer's character and creditworthiness and, generally, about his circumstances in life.”
referendary
  1. (obsolete) One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.
  2. (obsolete) An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
  3. (obsolete) An officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
referral
  1. The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
  2. (slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Such steps include referral to another doctor as appropriate.”
      “If no improvement occurs, referral to a podiatric foot and ankle surgeon is appropriate.”
      “Fractures that are difficult to reduce or unstable after reduction may require orthopedic or hand referral.”
referer
  1. Misspelling of referrer.
  2. (Internet) the referring page; the URL that referred to a given page.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The referer information can also be accessed as document.referrer within JavaScript.”
      “The referer portion of a logfile line contains the full URL of the page or object visited before the current one.”
referent
  1. (semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
  2. That which is referenced.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “But in the following passage the syntax is such that the referent of the word lap is ambiguous.”
      “In a probe recall experiment, a word with a thematized referent was a better recall probe than a word with a non-thematized referent.”
      “The referent of the Mexican postmaster's comparative metaphor is itself left unspoken.”
referment
  1. The act of referring; reference.
referend
  1. referent; something referred to
referentiality
  1. The condition of being referential
  2. Examples:
    1. “All this is taken by Derrida's critics for an attack on truth itself, referentiality and the stability of interpretative contexts.”
      “The third way in which ectoplasm images articulate the referentiality of photography via the body builds upon the first two.”
      “In fact Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié has done a number of pieces that explore the mode of referentiality at work in schemas, maps, and plans.”
refereeing
refereeship
  1. The role or status of referee.
referrer
  1. A person who refers another.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Now I discover, through referrer logs, that somebody is visiting from Iceland.”
      “Do you check your referrer logs and surf the blogosphere all day from your office?”
      “As a subscriber to their newsletter and referrer of 3 subscribers, I got 8 shares when they distributed them.”
referers
  1. Misspelling of referrers. plural of referer
refereeships
  1. plural of refereeship
referendaries
  1. plural of referendary
  2. Examples:
    1. “Judges are often assisted by law clerks, referendaries and notaries in legal cases and by bailiffs or similar with security.”
refereeings
references
referends
  1. plural of referend
referents
  1. plural of referent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This message, even when presented figuratively, uses extra linguistic referents to bring it in touch with the reality around us.”
      “Geoff Pullum complains about the use of the count noun troop for individual, rather than collective, referents.”
      “Meaning postulates are not about the sense of words but about their referents.”
referrers
  1. plural of referrer
  2. Examples:
    1. “I found this site in my referrers a few days ago and so far I'm enjoying what I've read.”
      “I found a site through my referrers last night that had all the male-edited weblogs in one column, and all the female-edited weblogs in another.”
      “Snippets of search engine referrers that attracted people here looking for St. Patrick's Day suggest there are widely divergent ideas of the Irish culture.”
referrals
  1. plural of referral
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But strict protocol requires victims to first seek referrals from the police.”
      “Direct services include referrals, provision of information, mental health counselling, advocacy work and financial assistance.”
      “The first thing that needs to happen to create a flood of referrals into your personal training department is that you need to earn them.”
referees
  1. plural of referee
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We wanted to put him down for the referees course, but he couldn't read or write.”
      “Yet the buzz and sense of achievement that referees and officials in all guises seem to feel continues to amaze me.”
      “I know as I've done it in other big games on the world stage, but referees always have been, and always will be, easy targets.”
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