ref

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ref"

English

Etymology

Clippings

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɛf/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛf
• Homophone: reph

Noun

ref (plural refs)

1. (informal) Clipping of referee.
2. Abbreviation of reference.
   1. Abbreviation of refsheet.
3. Abbreviation of refectory.
4. (Philippines, informal) Clipping of refrigerator.

   Please close the ref.

   Please close the refrigerator.

Derived terms

• work the refs

Descendants

• ⇒ Tagalog: i-ref

Verb

ref (third-person singular simple present refs, present participle reffing, simple past and past participle reffed)

1. (informal, ambitransitive) To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
   • 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:

     On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.

Anagrams

• FER, RFE, erf, f***er, fer

Icelandic

Noun

ref

1. indefinite accusative singular of refur
2. indefinite dative singular of refur

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ref

1. Alternative form of reif

Etymology 2

Verb

ref

1. Alternative form of reven

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hrif, from Proto-Germanic *hrefaz.

Noun

ref n

1. stomach
2. womb
3. conception

Inflection

case	singular	plural
nominative	ref	revir
accusative	ref	revir
genitive	reves	reviro
dative	reve	reviron

Declension of ref (z-stem)

Derived terms

• *mitref, *middilref (“midriff”)

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: *rif
  • Dutch: rif

Further reading

“ref”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Swedish

Noun

ref

1. Obsolete spelling of räv.

See also

• referee

Anagrams

• fre