Definition of referential in English:

referential

adjective ˌrɛfəˈrɛnʃ(ə)lˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl

1Containing or of the nature of references or allusions.
Example sentencesExamples
- Before identifying a paradigmatic text on which to focus, a basic understanding of the referential patterns in audience attitudes toward age, gender, and romance in screen cultures was sought.
- The map is a referential structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality.
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is only part of Lewis's multi-layered seven-volume fiction, and like most referential treatments of classic literature, it is overlong and sometimes awkward.
- The referential type of thing is what excites me.
- The Walkers' art balances on a line between referential and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line.
- Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism.
- The other way to think of music is in its own terms - not referential to anything else.
- Maybe she has decided her column should replicate a blog post that synthesises a number of sources (but without the referential hyperlinks)?
- As both message and context, nature can manifest the referential function.
- Another piece of evidence that supported the study was that male talk tends to be more referential or informative, while female talk is more supportive and facilitative.
- Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures.
- This is one of the things that really bugs me: so much of this stuff is referential, and always to one place.
- To have allowed the actual, the almost-representational and the referential, into his frames is already a considerable move for Shreshtha.
- While the poems are often wild as usual, their referential reach is bound by the subject of the volume.
- Based on the Elena Stancanelli novel, the feature riffs beautifully on various bits of pop and film history, but never feels like a cheap ripoff, or like a work that rests on its referential laurels.
- It was surely from Rothko, though, that he learned the profound truth that a simple shape can be not merely referential to the observed world but can in itself sum up and communicate human ideas.
- The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and referential.
- It is these referential touches that enhance the movie.
- Even the earlier buildings are referential, trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one.
- Almodóvar is one wildly referential director, riding pop culture throughout this Bad Education.
2Linguistics
Relating to a referent, in particular having the external world rather than a text or language as a referent.
Example sentencesExamples
- Now, everyone seems to agree about where the basic referential morphemes here come from.
- There is an intuition that indefinites have specific readings in which they are referential and where the speaker can identify the referent, but the hearer cannot.
- K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a referential theory of language.
- In language, the words we deal with do have referential meaning which extends beyond this closed logical system.
- As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely referential level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants.

Derivatives

referentiality

noun

She believed, and nourished the belief, that genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human referentiality.
Example sentencesExamples
- All this is taken by Derrida's critics for an attack on truth itself, referentiality and the stability of interpretative contexts.
- However, in spite of the conference's attempted focus on the 1960s, Watten's talk was one of the few to actually attempt a contextualizing framework of the decade - not bad for a poet who seeks to subvert direct referentiality in his work.
- The more particular criticism seems to be that the referentiality is something that panders to the intelligence of the audience, that falsely congratulates them on being so well-informed.
- The point of deconstruction was that language, by its nature, escapes pure referentiality; it was never that the things language tries to refer to do not exist.

referentially

adverb

The bottom, ocher section, somewhat smaller in area than the top, can be read both referentially - a shadow or a wall section in another material or color - or purely formally.
Example sentencesExamples
- On the other hand the reference value might be referentially atomic, meaning that it has no particular internal structural relation to any other reference values; maybe it is used as an index in an association list.
- Certainly, an introductory survey needs to account for these texts, summarise their content and aims, and use them referentially as an argument progresses.
- Would the speakers of such a language be prohibited from using their descriptions referentially?
- Logophoric pronouns are semantically stronger than regular pronouns in that syntactically, they usually require to be bound in a local domain, and semantically, they are canonically referentially dependent.

Rhymes

cadential, confidential, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, existential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, pestilential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential, torrential

Definition of referential in US English:

referential

adjectiveˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəlˌrefəˈren(t)SHəl

1Containing or of the nature of references or allusions.
Example sentencesExamples
- Maybe she has decided her column should replicate a blog post that synthesises a number of sources (but without the referential hyperlinks)?
- To have allowed the actual, the almost-representational and the referential, into his frames is already a considerable move for Shreshtha.
- It is these referential touches that enhance the movie.
- The Walkers' art balances on a line between referential and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line.
- This is one of the things that really bugs me: so much of this stuff is referential, and always to one place.
- The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and referential.
- The map is a referential structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality.
- Almodóvar is one wildly referential director, riding pop culture throughout this Bad Education.
- While the poems are often wild as usual, their referential reach is bound by the subject of the volume.
- Based on the Elena Stancanelli novel, the feature riffs beautifully on various bits of pop and film history, but never feels like a cheap ripoff, or like a work that rests on its referential laurels.
- Even the earlier buildings are referential, trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one.
- As both message and context, nature can manifest the referential function.
- Another piece of evidence that supported the study was that male talk tends to be more referential or informative, while female talk is more supportive and facilitative.
- Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism.
- The other way to think of music is in its own terms - not referential to anything else.
- The referential type of thing is what excites me.
- It was surely from Rothko, though, that he learned the profound truth that a simple shape can be not merely referential to the observed world but can in itself sum up and communicate human ideas.
- Before identifying a paradigmatic text on which to focus, a basic understanding of the referential patterns in audience attitudes toward age, gender, and romance in screen cultures was sought.
- Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures.
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is only part of Lewis's multi-layered seven-volume fiction, and like most referential treatments of classic literature, it is overlong and sometimes awkward.
2Linguistics
Relating to a referent, in particular having the external world rather than a text or language as a referent.
Example sentencesExamples
- Now, everyone seems to agree about where the basic referential morphemes here come from.
- There is an intuition that indefinites have specific readings in which they are referential and where the speaker can identify the referent, but the hearer cannot.
- In language, the words we deal with do have referential meaning which extends beyond this closed logical system.
- As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely referential level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants.
- K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a referential theory of language.

单词	referential
释义	Definition of referential in English: referential adjective ˌrɛfəˈrɛnʃ(ə)lˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəl 1Containing or of the nature of references or allusions. Example sentencesExamples Before identifying a paradigmatic text on which to focus, a basic understanding of the referential patterns in audience attitudes toward age, gender, and romance in screen cultures was sought. The map is a referential structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is only part of Lewis's multi-layered seven-volume fiction, and like most referential treatments of classic literature, it is overlong and sometimes awkward. The referential type of thing is what excites me. The Walkers' art balances on a line between referential and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line. Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism. The other way to think of music is in its own terms - not referential to anything else. Maybe she has decided her column should replicate a blog post that synthesises a number of sources (but without the referential hyperlinks)? As both message and context, nature can manifest the referential function. Another piece of evidence that supported the study was that male talk tends to be more referential or informative, while female talk is more supportive and facilitative. Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures. This is one of the things that really bugs me: so much of this stuff is referential, and always to one place. To have allowed the actual, the almost-representational and the referential, into his frames is already a considerable move for Shreshtha. While the poems are often wild as usual, their referential reach is bound by the subject of the volume. Based on the Elena Stancanelli novel, the feature riffs beautifully on various bits of pop and film history, but never feels like a cheap ripoff, or like a work that rests on its referential laurels. It was surely from Rothko, though, that he learned the profound truth that a simple shape can be not merely referential to the observed world but can in itself sum up and communicate human ideas. The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and referential. It is these referential touches that enhance the movie. Even the earlier buildings are referential, trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one. Almodóvar is one wildly referential director, riding pop culture throughout this Bad Education. 2Linguistics Relating to a referent, in particular having the external world rather than a text or language as a referent. Example sentencesExamples Now, everyone seems to agree about where the basic referential morphemes here come from. There is an intuition that indefinites have specific readings in which they are referential and where the speaker can identify the referent, but the hearer cannot. K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a referential theory of language. In language, the words we deal with do have referential meaning which extends beyond this closed logical system. As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely referential level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants. Derivatives referentiality noun She believed, and nourished the belief, that genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human referentiality. Example sentencesExamples All this is taken by Derrida's critics for an attack on truth itself, referentiality and the stability of interpretative contexts. However, in spite of the conference's attempted focus on the 1960s, Watten's talk was one of the few to actually attempt a contextualizing framework of the decade - not bad for a poet who seeks to subvert direct referentiality in his work. The more particular criticism seems to be that the referentiality is something that panders to the intelligence of the audience, that falsely congratulates them on being so well-informed. The point of deconstruction was that language, by its nature, escapes pure referentiality; it was never that the things language tries to refer to do not exist. referentially adverb The bottom, ocher section, somewhat smaller in area than the top, can be read both referentially - a shadow or a wall section in another material or color - or purely formally. Example sentencesExamples On the other hand the reference value might be referentially atomic, meaning that it has no particular internal structural relation to any other reference values; maybe it is used as an index in an association list. Certainly, an introductory survey needs to account for these texts, summarise their content and aims, and use them referentially as an argument progresses. Would the speakers of such a language be prohibited from using their descriptions referentially? Logophoric pronouns are semantically stronger than regular pronouns in that syntactically, they usually require to be bound in a local domain, and semantically, they are canonically referentially dependent. Rhymes cadential, confidential, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, existential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, pestilential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential, torrential Definition of referential in US English: referential adjectiveˌrɛfəˈrɛn(t)ʃəlˌrefəˈren(t)SHəl 1Containing or of the nature of references or allusions. Example sentencesExamples Maybe she has decided her column should replicate a blog post that synthesises a number of sources (but without the referential hyperlinks)? To have allowed the actual, the almost-representational and the referential, into his frames is already a considerable move for Shreshtha. It is these referential touches that enhance the movie. The Walkers' art balances on a line between referential and impenetrable, sometimes falling on the wrong side of that line. This is one of the things that really bugs me: so much of this stuff is referential, and always to one place. The everyday is dilated and takes on further meaning, both abstract and referential. The map is a referential structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality. Almodóvar is one wildly referential director, riding pop culture throughout this Bad Education. While the poems are often wild as usual, their referential reach is bound by the subject of the volume. Based on the Elena Stancanelli novel, the feature riffs beautifully on various bits of pop and film history, but never feels like a cheap ripoff, or like a work that rests on its referential laurels. Even the earlier buildings are referential, trying to create meaning in this New World by referring to an imaginary old one. As both message and context, nature can manifest the referential function. Another piece of evidence that supported the study was that male talk tends to be more referential or informative, while female talk is more supportive and facilitative. Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism. The other way to think of music is in its own terms - not referential to anything else. The referential type of thing is what excites me. It was surely from Rothko, though, that he learned the profound truth that a simple shape can be not merely referential to the observed world but can in itself sum up and communicate human ideas. Before identifying a paradigmatic text on which to focus, a basic understanding of the referential patterns in audience attitudes toward age, gender, and romance in screen cultures was sought. Shades of Mahler and Shostakovich flit through the texture in which dissonances set against a tonally referential idiom and allusions to earlier styles are set within absolute musical structures. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is only part of Lewis's multi-layered seven-volume fiction, and like most referential treatments of classic literature, it is overlong and sometimes awkward. 2Linguistics Relating to a referent, in particular having the external world rather than a text or language as a referent. Example sentencesExamples Now, everyone seems to agree about where the basic referential morphemes here come from. There is an intuition that indefinites have specific readings in which they are referential and where the speaker can identify the referent, but the hearer cannot. In language, the words we deal with do have referential meaning which extends beyond this closed logical system. As with Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Seven Samurai is, on a purely referential level of story and plot, about samurai warriors saving peasants. K. Anthony Appiah argues that racial ascriptions are problematic whether one adopts an ideational or a referential theory of language.
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