- π Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.
- π (linguistics) Of or relating to a referent
- π Of or relating to reference or allusion
- π Serving as a reference.
- π (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
- π A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
- π Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- π (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
- π (often attributive) A reference work.
- π The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- π (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- π (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- π (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
- π (computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- π (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as β’ for the β’ symbol.
- π (obsolete) Appeal.
- π (usually preceded by `with') relation of delimitation
- π (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
- π (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
- π (transitive) 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.
- π (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
- π (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence
- π (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [+ to (object)]
- π (intransitive, education) Required to resit an examination.
- π Alternative form of point of reference [A particular location which is used as an endpoint when measuring distances or charting maps.]
- π (obsolete) One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.
- π (historical) An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
- π (obsolete) An officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
- π Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
- π Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
- π One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
- π A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
- π (programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
- π (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
- π (databases) A primary key.
- π Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
- π (chemistry) An equivalent weight.
- π The act of attributing something
- π An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
- π (law) A legal doctrine by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the tortious or criminal act.
- π (mostly Commonwealth) Alternative form of analog [(countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.]
- π The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- π Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- π A reporter's informant.
- π (computing) Source code.
- π (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- π The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
- π (slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
- π The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
- π (logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
- π (philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
- π (semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
- π (computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
- π (media studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
- π Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
- π (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
- π (grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
- π (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
- π Relevant; pertinent; related.
- π Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
- π An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
- π The paper containing such summons or notice.
- π The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing.
- π An entry in a list of sources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribed bibliographical style; a reference.
- π The passage or words quoted; a quotation.
- π (lexicography) A quotation with attached bibliographical details demonstrating the use of a particular lexical item in a dictionary, especially a dictionary on historical principles.
- π Enumeration; mention.
- π A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
- π A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
- π (semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol (dictionary definitions).
- π (usually with the definite article the) A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
- π A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
- π The action or process of defining
- π The act of defining; determination of the limits.
- π A product of defining
- π The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
- π Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
- π Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction
- π Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits
- π (bodybuilding) The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
- π (programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
- π (mathematics) A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
- π (countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.
- π (countable, biology) An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
- π (chemistry) A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.
- π The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- π The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
- π The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.
- π (of a person's actions) Intention.
- π Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.
- π A role model.
- π Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies.
- π A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
- π A well known usage of a scientific theory
- π A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
- π A copy of a book or piece of writing
- π (transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
- π (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate
- π (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of
- π (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
- π (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)
- π (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of
- π (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
- π (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of
- π (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
- π (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
- π (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be an example of.
- π (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member
- π (intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people; to acquit oneself well.
- π (medicine) To present again, for instance for medical attention.
- π The manner in which two things may be associated.
- π A member of one's extended family; a relative.
- π The act of relating a story
- π (set theory) A set of ordered tuples
- π (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- π (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
- π (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- π (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects
- π (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.
- π An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned
- π said of articles or books that have undergone peer review
- π said of a journal whose articles are submitted to peer review
- π (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word or phrase.
- π (countable, rhetoric) A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
- π (countable, graphical user interface) The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
- π (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- π An actor; one who takes action.
- π The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- π A particular area of study
- π A citizen in a monarchy
- π A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- π (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- π A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
- π (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- π (logic) That of which something is stated
- π (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- π (computing, information science) A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.
- π (linguistics) A word or expression used to describe or identify something.
- π (grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.
- π (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way
- π (transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
- π (intransitive) To have a connection.
- π (intransitive) To interact.
- π (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
- π (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand.
- π (obsolete) To bring back; to restore
- π Obsolete form of relic. [That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.]
- π Formal statements made to an authority to express discontent.
- π Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
- π Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule
- π Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
- π A person punished as a warning to others
- π A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
- π An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
- π Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
- π (obsolete) A combining together of parts or ingredients.
- π (politics) A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment. The adposition on is usually used before the related subject of the vote.
- π An action, choice, etc., which is perceived as passing judgment on another matter.
- π The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating.
- π (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
- π (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
- π (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
- π A parable or allegory.
- π The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
- π (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
- π (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
- π (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom
- π (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.