Word Finder - preference

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The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")

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He has a preference for crisp wines.

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The option to so select, and the one selected.

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Can I keep my preferences when I upgrade to the new version of this application?

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The state of being preferred over others.

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A strong liking or personal valuation.

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A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.

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To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.

Their dates had been modest, but was that by preference, or because he had limited funding?

It's a matter of personal preference.

The chef can spice your entree to your preference from mild to vary spicy.

By preference the Andamanese are exogamous as regards sept and endogamous as regards tribe.

Her preference is to date non-celebrities.

In these buildings there is a great preference for apsidal terminations to the internal chambers, and the façades are as a rule slightly curved.

The choice will depend on your personal preference, budget, and placement options in your yard.

This selection, of course, depends on your overall personality and preference.

He also was a Khatri, and was chosen by Guru Nanak in preference to his own sons.

C. Fabricius (1775), is used by many writers in preference to Hemiptera.

Which litter you choose may be a matter of preference.

The main difficulty in the reading of Babylonian and Assyrian proper names arises from the preference given to the " ideographic " method of writing them.

The earliest writers upon cholera emphasized its remarkable preference for particular places; and the history of each successive epidemic implies, besides an importation of the contagion, certain local conditions which may be either general sanitary defects or peculiarities of climate and soil.

He opposed the removal of Jewish disabilities, arguing, we are told by a contemporary, " on the part of the Evangelicals," and pleaded for the gradual extinction, in preference to the immediate abolition, of slavery.

Lunalilo, a grandson of Kamehameha I., was king for two years, and in 1874, backed by American influence, Kalakaua was elected his successor, in preference to Queen Emma, a member of the Anglican Church and the candidate of the pro-British party.

If you already have a preference and knowledge of a specific manufacturer you trust, go with them.

He began to give some preference to English indirectly.

Altogether Biran's work presents a very remarkable specimen of deep metaphysical thinking directed by preference to the psychological aspect of experience.

Mr Ritchie's remission of the shilling import-duty on corn led to Mr Chamberlain's crusade in favour of tariff reform and colonial preference, and as the session proceeded the rift grew in the Unionist ranks.

He evinced no rancour or spite; his " Farewell Sermon " was dignified and temperate; nor is it to be ascribed to chagrin that in a letter to Scotland after his dismissal he expresses his preference for Presbyterian to Congregational church government.

This was an office which, however congenial to Mr. Law with his colonial birth and his belief in Colonial Preference, did not bring him much into the limelight; and, influential as he was in the councils of the Ministry, in public he was content to play a comparatively subordinate part.

Browns and other shades come next in order of preference.

The reason of this preference for the eastern bank of the Tigris was due to its abundant supply of water, whereas the great Mesopotamian plain on the western side had to depend upon the streams which flowed into the Euphrates.

About 89% recorded their preference in favour of English at the outset; then, as a result of violent political agitation, this percentage was considerably lowered, but soon crept up again.

The rebel barons support the son of the king of France, Prince Louis in preference to King John.

The results of the reading experiment, however, revealed no significant interaction of referential context with the attachment preference of the relative clause.

Mathematical Expressions Use the solidus whenever possible in preference to built-up fractions.

An orderly selection function should always choose the best element(s) of the remainder set according to some well-behaved preference relation.

Arguments could be waged endlessly about which is best of these features, but in the end it only depends on your preference.

While many factors are largely personal preference, there are a few universal elements you should be keeping in mind when buying a pair of tennis shoes.

As with the flexibility and stiffness of the racket, the string tension is largely personal preference and should be catered to each individual player.

The grip on the racket, much like the string, is personal preference.

Whatever the preference, Nancy also had some advice in this area that may change your perspective just a bit.

Black is the most common background color for biker T shirts but they come in a ton of colors to suit your personal preference.

I eat raw meat, too, but that's more a matter of preference.

In his appointments to governorships and other offices, as well as in his distribution of spoil, Othman showed a marked preference for the members of his own tribe the Koreish (Quraish) and the members of his own family the Bani Omayya (Umayya).

Everard Mercurian, a Fleming, and a subject of Spain, succeeded Borgia in 1 573, being forced on the Society by the pope, in preference to Polanco, Ignatius's secretary and the vicar-general, who was rejected partly as a Spaniard and still more because he was a "New Christian" of Jewish origin and therefore objected to in Spain itself.

In bringing about a system of penny postage throughout the empire; in forwarding the construction of the Pacific cable to secure close and safe imperial telegraphic connexion; in creating rapid and efficient lines of steamship communication with the motherland and all the colonies; in granting tariff preference to British goods and in striving for preferential treatment of inter-imperial trade; in assuming responsibility for imperial defence at the two important stations of Halifax and Esquimalt, - Canada, under the guidance of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his party, took a leading part and showed a truly national spirit.

In Germany, since the victory of Kant over Wolff, realism has always been in difficulties, which we can appreciate when we reflect that the Germans by preference apply the term " realism " to the paradoxes of Herbart (1776-1841), who, in order to avoid supposed contradictions, supposed that bodies are not substances, but show (Schein), while " reals" are simple substances, each with a simple quality, and all preserving themselves against disturbance by one another, whether physically or psychologically, but not known to be either material or spiritual because we do not know the simple quality in which the nature of the real consists.

But Mr Chamberlain's new programme for a general tariff, with new taxes on food arranged so as to give a preference to colonial products, involved a radical alteration of the established fiscal system, and such out-and-out Unionist free-traders in the cabinet as Mr Ritchie and Lord George Hamilton, and outside it, like Lord Hugh Cecil and Mr Arthur Elliot (secretary to the treasury), were entirely opposed to this.

Yet this explanation is open to question owing to the very early date at which the regulation appears, and to the fact that in the case of widows the sum specified had to be paid to relatives of the widow herself on the female side, and by preference to those of a younger generation.

Thus when prices have advanced the manufacturer may find it difficult to obtain delivery of the yarn that he *had bought at low rates, for some spinners have a curious, indefensible preference for delivering their higherpriced orders; and, on the other hand, when prices have fallen the manufacturer sometimes ceases to take delivery of the highpriced yarn and actually purchases afresh for his needs.

The grains should show no signs of decay, and by preference should be of an angular shape.

The reason for this preference lies in the fact that being porous and full of air, they are a good non-conductor.

Charles seems to have been a prince of education and letters, a friend of the church, and conscious of the support he could find in the episcopate against his unruly nobles, for he chose his councillors for preference from among the higher clergy, as in the case of Guenelon of Sens, who betrayed him, or of Hincmar of Reims. But his character and his reign have been judged very variously.

It is apparent that in many cases lichens are quite indifferent to the substrata on which they occur, whence we infer that the preference of several for certain substrata depends upon the temperature of the locality or that of the special habitat.

After his fourth marriage in 1829 with Maria Christina of Naples, he was persuaded by his wife to set aside the law of succession of Philip V., which gave a preference to all the males of the family in Spain over the females.

With this object in view, the early improvers of hot-house architecture substituted metal for wood in the construction of the roofs, and for the most part dispensed with back walls; but the conducting power of the metal caused a great irregularity of temperature, which it was found difficult to control; and, notwithstanding the elegance of metallic houses, this circumstance, together with their greater cost, has induced most recent authorities to give the preference to wood.

For moving small plants the garden trowel is a very convenient tool, but we are inclined to give the preference to the hand-fork.

By 1907, however, the greatly increased production in India and Ceylon, with the willingness of many nations to drink such teas, in preference to those of China, had left to her Russia as a customer for nearly half her export of the article, a proportion rapidly diminishing, as that country too turned in the direction of using the stronger varieties.