different between referent vs authority

English

Etymology

refer +? -ent

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???f(?)??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???f???nt/

Noun

referent (plural referents)

1. (semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:referent.
2. That which is referenced.

Derived terms

• absent referent

Related terms

• refer
• reference

Translations

Further reading

• referent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• rent-free, tree fern, treefern

Catalan

Noun

referent m (plural referents)

1. (linguistics) referent

Adjective

referent (feminine referenta, masculine plural referents, feminine plural referentes)

1. referencing, referring

Derived terms

• referent a

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?f?r?nt]

Noun

referent m

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.: a person in a certain role
2. referent (the specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes)
   • 1990, Helena B?li?ová, Ján Sedlá?ek, Slovanské souv?tí:

     Neur?enost referentu je totiž v tázací v?t? impulsem pro adresáta, aby referen?ní neur?enost - aspo? z hlediska mluv?ího - odstranil.

   • 1992, Slavia, Volume 61:

     Determinovaná NP je obvykle definována jako referen?n? užitá NP, která presuponuje existenci referentu ve spole?ném univerzu promluvy mluv?ího a adresáta (neboli v ?e?ové situaci, na komunika?ní scén?).

   • 1992, Naše ?e?:

     Jsou-li determinátory v singuláru, mohou, podle kontextu, odkazovat bud k jedinému referentu, anebo k v?tšímu po?tu referent?.

   • 1999, Vladimír Havlík, Mezi jazykem a v?domím:

     Bezpochyby ne?eknu, že nerozumím tvrzení „Braque inicioval kubismus" jen proto, že je mi dostupný nanejvýš deskriptivní zp?sob identifikace referentu jména „Braque".

   • 2002, ?eská literatura, Volume 50:

     Eliminace referentu (de facto jeho vykázání mimo oblast významového sm??ování) se stala programní sou?ástí saussurovské strukturální sémiotiky.

   • 2013, Lenka Gulová, Radim Šíp, Výzkumné metody v pedagogické praxi:

     Pro rozpoznání referentu (p?edm?tu reálného sv?ta) je podmínkou sjednaná konvence mezi mluv?ími. Pojmenování referentu je sociálním ?inem vznikajícím na rovin? sémantiky.

See also

• denotát

Related terms

• See oferta

Further reading

• referent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• referent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
• referent in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
• REFERENT in Nový encyklopedický slovník ?eštiny, czechency.org

Danish

Noun

referent

1. referent (thing which word denotes)

Declension

Further reading

• “referent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Verb

referent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of refer?

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Referent, from Latin refer?ns, present participle of refer?.

Noun

referent m (feminine equivalent referentka)

1. speaker (“one who makes a speech to an audience”)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From German Referent, from Latin referens.

Noun

referent m (plural referen?i)

1. consultant, advisor

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.