geography vs reference

geography

noun
  • The relative arrangement of the parts of anything. 

  • The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them. 

  • Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution. 

  • A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector. 

  • The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation. 

  • Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth. 

  • Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets. 

  • A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography 

  • The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house. 

reference

noun
  • A reference work. 

  • A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to. 

  • Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted. 

  • The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision. 

  • A previously published written work thus indicated; a source. 

  • A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol. 

  • A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. 

  • An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself. 

  • A person who provides this information; a referee. 

  • A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text. 

verb
  • To provide a list of references for (a text). 

  • To refer to, to use as a reference. 

  • To mention, to cite. 

  • To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory. 

How often have the words geography and reference occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )