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Adverbial confer has 1 sense
- cf., cf, confer, see, see also - compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text)
Verb confer has 2 senses
- confer, confabulate, confab, consult - have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action"
--1 is one way to hash out, discuss, talk over
Sample sentences:
Sam cannot confer Sue
Sam wants to confer with Sue
- confer, bestow - present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone"
--2 is one way to award, present
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something on somebody
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