knowing vs reference

knowing

noun
  • The act or condition of having knowledge. 

adj
  • The ability to know something without being taught. 

  • Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding. 

  • Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent. 

  • Deliberate, wilful. 

  • Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning. 

  • Demonstrating knowledge of what is in fashion; stylish, chic. 

prep
  • Given my knowledge about someone or something. 

reference

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

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

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

  • 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. 

  • A reference work. 

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 knowing and reference occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )