What's the difference between love and reference?

Love


Definition:

  • (n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
  • (n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
  • (n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
  • (n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
  • (n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.
  • (n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.
  • (n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
  • (n.) A thin silk stuff.
  • (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
  • (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.
  • (n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
  • (n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
  • (n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
  • (v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
  • (10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.

Reference


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.
  • (n.) That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
  • (n.) Relation; regard; respect.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, is referred to.
  • (n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another.
  • (n.) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred.
  • (n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.
  • (n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court.
  • (n.) Appeal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (2) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
  • (3) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (4) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (5) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
  • (6) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
  • (7) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
  • (8) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
  • (9) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
  • (10) The reference cohort consisted of 1725845 men otherwise gainfully employed.
  • (11) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (12) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
  • (13) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
  • (14) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (15) It is usually referred to as an aminopeptidase inhibitor.
  • (16) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.
  • (17) In the course of its history, psychiatry has grown richer parallel to the development of its spatiotemporal system of the reference.
  • (18) Developmental changes are delineated, with particular reference to recent work on the ovine blood-brain barrier.
  • (19) Compared with the reference compounds, brotizolam induced the weakest degree of physical dependence.
  • (20) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.