Definition of "refer"

refer¹

/ɹɪˈfɜː/

verb
third-person singular simple present refers, present participle referring, simple past and past participle referred
1. (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
2. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
3. (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.
4. (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
5. (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
6. (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
7. (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [+ to (object)]
  Quotations
  Hence, the precise number of bytes to which the pointer refers to is not known. The compiler must know the number of bytes to which a pointer refers to in order to apply dereference operation
  2010 September, Ajay Mittal, Programming In C: A Practical Approach‎, Pearson Education India, page 201
8. (transitive, education) To require to resit an examination.

refer²

/ˈɹiːfə/

noun
plural refers
1. (journalism) A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.
  Quotations
  A refer on page 1 of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, edition of The Herald-News contained incorrect information about the story “Neighbors at odds over Joliet liquor license” that appeared on Page 4 of the same edition.
  2015 August 5, “Corrections”, in The Herald-News‎, Joliet, Illinois: Shaw Media, via Issuu, page 2
  Looking at the refers on page 2, it's obvious that May became something of an accidental women's issue.
  2017 May, Amanda May Aruani, “Letter from the Editor”, in The Arts Paper‎, New Haven, Connecticut: The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, via Issuu, page 3
  The paper of Sept. 11 was not without its alarms. On Page One, an ominous “refer” (pronounced reefer) to an article inside the paper: Palestinian snipers had killed two Israelis, bringing a retaliatory shelling by Israeli tanks. On A3: A suicide bomber had killed two police officers in Istanbul.
  2021 September 10, Ralph Blumenthal, “A Time Capsule in Two Front Pages”, in The New York Times, New York City