Referring meaning : To direct the attention of. To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. (construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to. (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence. To address a specific location in computer memory. Required to resit an examination. The act by which somebody or something is referred; a reference.