What's the difference between reference and reverence?

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.

Reverence


Definition:

  • (n.) Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
  • (n.) The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
  • (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
  • (n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
  • (v. t.) To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
  • (2) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
  • (3) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
  • (4) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
  • (5) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
  • (6) King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.
  • (7) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
  • (8) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
  • (9) Where other titans became “Old Farts” overnight – “ No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977” as the Clash had it – Bowie stayed revered.
  • (10) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
  • (11) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (12) But many of the MEK's American supporters speak of the organisation almost with a reverence.
  • (13) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
  • (14) Others are alarmed at the almost cult-like reverence that has built up around Buhari.
  • (15) Qhorin Halfhand is revered for his ability to live deep into Wildling territory for years on end.
  • (16) He inspired that odd mixture of reverence and resentment that we now associate with celebrity, a phenomenon wrongly thought modern.
  • (17) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
  • (18) As for potatoes, we're supposed to treat them with a reverence previously reserved for fine wine and caviar.
  • (19) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
  • (20) It's one thing for critics and curators to single out the next rising star from China, expecting hushed reverence from the general public, but quite another for us to genuinely engage with the art of China past and present.