Referents

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Definitions and meanings of "Referents"

What do we mean by referents?

The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.

That which is referenced.

A reference is like, Say you're having a conversation and you make a joke about like santa claus That's referencing santa Urban Dictionary

When someone says something relatable or relevant and you wanna “reference” it. Urban Dictionary

A misspelling of referrer used in internet lingo deliberately. It came about because when one web page links (or refers) to another, it tells the second web page who the REFERer was. Urban Dictionary

REFER: An abbreviated term used to identify the common-place, everyday, plain old "refrigerator". Urban Dictionary

V. 1. to direct to a source 2. Often the misspelled form of "reefer" in online chats. Urban Dictionary

When an individual makes an attempt to hipe up there linguistic intelligence around others to camouflage the fact that they haven't a breeze what there talking about. Also when an attempt is made to point out the blatantly obvious. Like a jackass highlighting a paragraph right in front of the person reading it. Urban Dictionary

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Oh, so you got the reference. Somebody must have explained it to you. Urban Dictionary

A reference to Hirohiko Araki's long running manga (and anime) series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Usually pertaining to things simular to or referencing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure themes such as floating or exploding Kanji, posing that covers the face and aesthetic of both the show and manga. Urban Dictionary

Increasingly used on the internet, the phrase "Is that a JoJo reference?!" refers to the anime JoJo's Bizzare Adventure. Since the anime is used in a lot of memes, when people spot something related to JoJo in a meme they tend to ask if it is a JoJo reference. Urban Dictionary

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The word "referents" in example sentences

According to Mill, while proper names denote their referents, which is to say that their meanings are nothing but those referents, natural kind terms, along with general terms more broadly, connote their referents or extensions. ❋ Bird, Alexander (2008)

It is important to recognize that, in calling the referents of the defined terms “quantities,” Newton is assigning them to the ontological category of quantity in Aristotle's sense. ❋ Smith, George (2007)

The reference relation between natural kind (magnitude, etc.) terms and their referents is a purely causal matter, where the purity in question is a matter of the reference relation's being definable without significantly acknowledging descriptive elements or human intentions. ❋ Boyd, Richard (2002)

Ambiguity is par for the course with pronouns with multiple referents, anyway: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reinventing the news images as luscious paintings rich in art historical referents, Garnett's work, which she calls "apocalyptic sublime," might come off as glib and exploitative to some. ❋ Sharon L. Butler (2010)

This is the first step toward obliterating discriminatory homosocial/homosexual referents. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

I detect no interest in matching words with their referents -- that is, semantics. ❋ Robin Lakoff (2011)

Geoff DobsonLondon• Blatter: n ignorant and arrogant; v (to be) ignorant and arrogantHoward BurrellStevenage, Hertfordshire • Your critic Brian Logan (At Last, The 1981 Show, Review, 31 May) reared, as he states, on The Young Ones and Saturday Live, needs to widen his cultural referents. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And I agree with much of their ideas and goals, one of which was, as Wikipedia puts it, to create a “Gender-neutral language …. .aimed at minimizing assumptions regarding the biological sex of human referents” (also referred to as gender-inclusive language). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It looked like she had also anticipated the difficulty of learning a language without referents. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the previous post on articles – A is for articles (1) – I focused mainly on the indefinite article and attempted to correct the common misconception that the referents of a/an are both indefinite and non-specific. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Person 1: 'Haha *A Reference to dnf' Person 2: 'SHUT [THE FUCK UP] OR I SWEAR TO SATAN I WILL [PUNT] YOU TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET' Person 1: 'No need to get [touchy] two.. haha. Please dont' ❋ ThtGenderfluidFryingPan (2021)

[Person A]: That party [sucked]! [Person B]: Reference ❋ Bakers12 (2019)

Of [the sites] that link to us, the most popular [REFERER] is acpizza.livejournal.com, but thats probably because they've been running [asswipe] again. ❋ Jkenner (2004)

[Bart] the [bone-head] keeps his [reefer] in the refer. ❋ THE VEEP (2006)

[Steve]: "That guy is a referhead." Joe: "That would mean he directs people to other [sources] you [dufus]. He is a reefer-head. ❋ Joe (2004)

Reference the hole in your trousers.. Reference your late back [break time].. Reference, reference.. Reference [the fire exit] is for [emergency] use.. ❋ Pointofcontact (2016)

Person 1 : Hey! Can I [borrow] your homework? Person 2: Sure, make sure to not copy everything. Person 3: [No prob] man, I am only using your homework as [a reference] ❋ Movenmist (2021)

[Hym] "I am glad you got the reference. I'm [unhappy] that I have to sit here and pretend that I wasn't right all along. They're [doing the thing] I said they were doing. ❋ Hym Iam (2022)

Hey Bob was [posing] at the business meeting today with his hands and hips. Was that his [arthritis] or [a jojo reference]? ❋ HentaiExpert (2017)

MEME: -Is a "[to be continued] meme", or says the word "[NANI]?!"- Meme connoisseur: "[Is that a JoJo reference]?!!" ❋ Supersonicsammyfan Fan (2019)

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