Senseandreferencearetwodifferentnotionsofsemanticsandtheyarerelatedtoeachother.

　　Asensereferstoanyofthevariousmeaningsconveyedbyaword,phraseorsentence.Itrelatestothecomplexsystemofrelationshipsthatholdbetweenthelinguisticselementsthemselvesanditisconcernedwithintra-linguisticrelationship.

　　Areferencereferstotherelationshipbetweenthelinguisticelementsandthenon-linguisticworldofexperience.

　　Senseandreferencemaybetakenastwodifferentaspectsofsemantics,theformerdealingwiththesemanticsstructureoflanguageandthelatterdealingwiththemeaningintermsofourexperienceoutsidelanguage.