Word Finder - preferring

definition

To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.

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I prefer tea to coffee.

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To advance, promote (someone or something).

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To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").

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To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to).

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A preference; the choice of something preferred.

We read and studied out of doors, preferring the sunlit woods to the house.

He had not sought the office, preferring service in the field.

Only when the sun peeked over the horizon did he decide to leave, preferring a dark place where he could dwell with his dark thoughts.

Parents often worry about preferring one child over another and being fair to all their children.

A year later, preferring a wider field, he resigned the position and devoted himself to literary work.

It succeeds in almost any soil, preferring a rich, light loam.

For those preferring plainer fare, there also are menu items such as grilled cheese sandwiches and pot roast.

For retirees preferring the Chattanooga area of Tennessee, the retirement community of Greenbrier Cove offers an active lifestyle and affordable living.

Players still flock to the original version of the game, preferring its balanced gameplay and adrenaline-pumping team-based combat.

As a youth, he rejected his heritage and his father's teachings, preferring the modernity of Starfleet, but his father's death brought him home to the tribe.

Nevertheless these non-moral taboos or restraints may have played a part in building up in us that faculty of preferring the larger good to the impulse of the moment which is the note of real civilization.

So also Mill is justified in preferring a scene of Shakespeare or an hour's conversation with a friend to a great mass of lower pleasure.

They were most numerous in the southern and central portions of the state, preferring the river valleys; but their total number, perhaps, never exceeded a thousand.

The Promise does not enunciate judgments, preferring positive statements instead.

Bergkamp the man has always eschewed the limelight, preferring to spend time with his family.

We are too polite, preferring euphemisms or tactful skepticism.

Having no money and also preferring to do everything himself, Carpenter acted, directed and had a hand in virtually everything.

They are not social animals, preferring to live alone or in pairs avoiding other hippos.

Top of page Procedure Rules on preferring indictments are nor contained in CPR Rule 14.

America, hardy, thriving in light soil, preferring peat, and are suitable for the margins of groups of American shrubs and for low parts of rock gardens.

It is suitable for associating with flowers in summer, and grows in any soil, preferring moist places.

Though preferring shade, they only need a good supply of water at the root during summer, and will thrive even exposed to the full rays of the sun.

Thus, most waistcoats were made of silk and men were loath to button their coats all the way, preferring to show off their waistcoats.

Joan chooses all her clothes to show off her generous figure, preferring snug skirts that skim her hips.

They often use their antique woodworking tools in their work, preferring the tool of yesteryear to a similar modern version.

The child with WS may have difficulty forming relationships with peers, preferring the company of younger children or adults.

They are more aggressive and more physically active, preferring noisy, boisterous forms of play that require larger groups and more space than the play of girls the same age.

There are approximately 60 types of HPV that cause warts, each preferring a specific bodily location.

During the first few years of life, preferring one eye over the other may lead to poor visual development in the blurrier eye.

Little bread is eaten, the Abyssinian preferring a thin cake of durra meal or teff, kneaded with water and exposed to the sun till the dough begins to rise, when it is baked.

Brancovan was accused of secret correspondence with the emperor, the tsar, the king of Poland and the Venetian republic, of betraying the Porte's secrets, of preferring Tirgovishtea to Bucharest as a residence, of acquiring lands and palaces in Transylvania, of keeping agents at Venice and Vienna, in both of which cities he had invested large sums, and of striking gold coins with his effigy.'

Although he was recognized leader of the Dutch party in Cape Colony, he consistently refused to take office, preferring to direct the policy and the action of others from an independent position.

Preferring the friendship of France, Abbas continued the war against Russia, but his new ally could give him very little assistance, and in 1814 Persia was compelled to make a disadvantageous peace.

On the advice of the Russians, who were just going to war with Turkey, the Serbs refused that offer, preferring to fight against the Turks as Russian allies.

He refused the dignity of senator offered him by Charles Albert, preferring to represent his native town in the Chamber of Deputies, of which he was soon elected president.

Preferring the solid advantage of orderly life to an unstable liberty, it acquiesced in the abdication of 1439, when the States consented to taxation for the support of a permanent army without any periodical renewal of their authorization.

Jenn wore nothing more than a vest to keep her core warm, preferring for her arms to be unencumbered.

Ernst & Young continues to avoid copping to these incidents in public, preferring for us and police blotters to expose the details.

In fact, some people are naturally introverted, preferring their own company and not needing a constant social whirl to feel fulfilled.

Her mother had grown tired of her father's pace and many love affairs, preferring the elite society of Paris.

He never goes for the quick release preferring the big punt up field.

As for your comments about preferring a Satsuma in a sock to a quad-processor G5, I have to drawn the line here.

The conflict was short and sharp, the mutinous sepoys preferring flight to the wrath of their enemies.

Douglas was not conspicuous as an ecclesiastical administrator, preferring to his livings the delights of London in winter and the fashionable wateringplaces in summer.

The nobles, turned into courtiers, placemen, diplomatists and men of affairs, ended by preferring his authority to the alternative of democratic institutions.

Mr Roosevelt declined the colonelcy of the regiment, preferring to take the post of lieutenant-colonel under his intimate friend Dr Leonard Wood, who, while a surgeon in the United States army, had served in action with gallantry and skill against the Indians.

On the 6th of July 1653 he took the degree of B.D., and became a tutor and chaplain of Corpus Christi, preferring this to a fellowship. In 1654 he had offers of high preferment in the state, which he declined; but in 1655 George Newton, of the great church of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, sought him for assistant and Alleine accepted the invitation.

Rabelais is the incarnation of the "esprit Gaulois," a jovial, careless soul, not destitute of common sense or even acute intellectual power, but first of all a good fellow, rather preferring a broad jest to a'fine-pointed one, and rollicking through life like a good-natured undergraduate.

The same post brought a letter from Oxford, soliciting Swift's company in his retirement; and, to the latter's immortal honour, he hesitated not an instant in preferring the solace of his friend to the offers of St John.

As for your comments about preferring a satsuma in a sock to a quad-processor G5, I have to drawn the line here.