The difference between Invoke and Reference

When used as verbs, invoke means to call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance, whereas reference means to provide a list of references for (a text).

Reference is also noun with the meaning: a relationship or relation ( something).

check bellow for the other definitions of Invoke and Reference

  1. Invoke as a verb (transitive):

    To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

  2. Invoke as a verb (transitive):

    To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.

    Examples:

    "In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof."

  3. Invoke as a verb (transitive):

    To conjure up with incantations.

    Examples:

    "This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub."

  4. Invoke as a verb (transitive):

    To bring about as an inevitable consequence.

    Examples:

    "Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath."

  5. Invoke as a verb (transitive):

    To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.

    Examples:

    "The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another drought. "

  6. Invoke as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

    Examples:

    "Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines."

  1. Reference as a noun (literary, or, archaic):

    A relationship or relation ( something).

  2. Reference as a noun:

    A measurement one can compare to.

  3. Reference as a noun:

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

  4. Reference as a noun:

    A person who provides this information; a referee.

  5. Reference as a noun:

    A reference work.

  6. Reference as a noun (semantics):

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

  7. Reference as a noun (academic writing):

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

  8. Reference as a noun (academic writing):

    A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.

  9. Reference as a noun (programming):

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

  10. Reference as a noun (programming, character entity):

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

  11. Reference as a noun (obsolete):

    Appeal.

  1. Reference as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "You must thoroughly reference your paper before submitting it."

  2. Reference as a verb:

    To refer to, to use as a reference.

    Examples:

    "'Reference the dictionary for word meanings."

  3. Reference as a verb:

    To mention, to cite.

    Examples:

    "In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent."

  4. Reference as a verb (programming):

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

    Examples:

    "The given pointer will reference the actual generated data."

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