Reference in sentence

664 examples of Reference in a sentence

They mean something only with respect to arbitrarily chosen, artificial frames of reference.

First, liars reference themselves less, when making deceptive statements.

Writing in his 1550 book, "Lives of the Artists," Giorgio Vasari was the first to describe it as Gothic, a derogatory reference to the Barbarians thought to have destroyed Classical civilization.

The term was first applied by Horace Walpole to his own 1764 novel, "The Castle of Otranto" as a reference to the plot and general atmosphere.

Just to show you some examples, illustrators and art students using it as a reference for their sketches and their studies.

What we ended up with is this very interesting map, these clusters that have no reference point information, but has just used visuals to cluster things together.

And with our colleagues, we thought perhaps it's our role to actually help make sure that the words are understood and actually create a work of reference that could be used across the Arab region.

However, this work of reference is quite high-pitched.

And it's a good thing to think about producing a work of reference for the average person, and bearing in mind that now we have a basis to work with, but also we have technology, so we can reach out using telephone apps, video, animation.

You made a reference to it earlier.

So now, as I've been telling you this imagined 2030 story, I have a feeling that I may have put some of you into this sci-fi frame of reference.

I wrote a reference card to act as documentation.

My dad printed up a sample reference card that we could use as marketing material.

Einstein realized that the contradiction could be resolved if it was the speed of light that remained constant, regardless of reference frame, while both time and space were relative to the observer.

That's an American reference, but you can look it up.

Not in most cases, and not in the preponderance of cases, but in every single instance where he made some reference to the Holocaust, that his supposed evidence was distorted, half-truth, date-changed, sequence-changed, someone put at a meeting who wasn't there.

That's as high as a 42-story building, and I put the Statue of Liberty in there as a scale reference.

But another thing happens that's very important: your reference income, the income to which you compare your own, also goes up.

Now, if the reference income of a nation, for example, goes up 10 percent by comparing themselves to the outside, then on average, people's own incomes have to go up at least five percent to maintain the same level of satisfaction.

But when you get down into the lower percentiles of income, your income has to go up much more if the reference income goes up 10 percent, something like 20 percent.

What happened is the Kosi River jumped its banks, and for reference, the scale bar here is 40 miles.

So just for reference, again, in this location, that river changed its course over four miles over the course of a season or two.

Records from nearby civilizations in Turkey also reference rennet.

Since many people don't know how an electric car could sound like, I have to define, first of all, a new sound world, something that doesn't belong to our previous experience but creates a reference for the future.

In such a case, abnormalities are typically detected by comparing a patient's health profile to the average health profile of a reference population.

For example, reference companies I've heard of, or basic items in your business.

For reference, the 2016 US presidential election was decided by about 100,000 votes.

Just for reference, that's more than twice the annual budget of the state of Washington.

"Shower" and "oven" are in there, too, for the less creative and more disturbing Holocaust reference.

And then this is what we called the "dead head," no reference to Jerry Garcia.

Related words