Crossword-Solution: REFERENT
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REFERENT | anagram | RENTFREE, TREEFERN |
We have 6 clues for the answer “REFERENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| That applies (to). | 1 answer |
| What something stands for | 1 answer |
| object or idea to which a word or phrase refers | 1 answer |
| the first term in a proposition | 1 answer |
| the term to which other terms relate | 1 answer |
| ALLUDED TO | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REFERENT (5)
Henceforth, it subjects the readers of the alphabetic text to the task of filling the enormous gap separating the graphic sign from its referent with their own experience.
Node:Spoken Inarticulations, Next:Anthropomorphization, Previous:Overgeneralization, Up:Jargon Construction Spoken inarticulations Words such as `mumble', `sigh', and `groan' are spoken in places where their referent might more naturally be used.
FRONT MATTER The footnote in the INTRODUCTION does not have a referent in the text-- there is no asterisk in the text.
Happy, happy, happy they Whose living love, untroubled by all strife, Binds them till the last sad day, Nor parts asunder but with parting life! XIV O NAVIS, REFERENT.
This was the time to have taken medicine, but I neglected to do so, though I had just been reading: "O navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus, O quid agis? fortiter occupa portum." I awoke at midnight: a cruel headache, thirst and pain in the small of the back informed me what the case was.
Quotes with REFERENT (3)
Gossip reduces the other to he/she, and this reduction is intolerable to me. For me the other is neither he nor she; the other has only a name of his own, or her own name. The third-person pronoun is a wicked pronoun: it is the pronoun of the non-person, it absents, it annuls. When I realize that common discourse takes possession of my other and restores that other to me in the bloodless form of a universal substitute, applied to all the things which are not here, it is as if…
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.
It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1958).