Usually means: To direct attention or mention.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word refer:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. refer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. refer: Merriam-Webster
  3. refer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. refer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. refer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. refer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Refer, refer: Wordnik
  8. refer: Wiktionary
  9. refer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. refer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. refer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. refer: Dictionary.com
  13. refer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. refer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Refer (software), Refer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Refer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. refer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. refer: Rhymezone
  19. Refer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. refer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. refer: FreeDictionary.org
  22. refer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. refer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. refer: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  4. refer: Legal dictionary
  5. refer: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. refer: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. refer: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. REFER: Acronym Finder
  2. refer: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See referable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (refer)

verb:  (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
verb:  (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
verb:  (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
verb:  (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
verb:  (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [with to]
verb:  (transitive, education) To require to resit an examination.
verb:  (intransitive, of a term or name) To have the meaning of, to denote.
noun:  (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.

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