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PREFERRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
More desirable than another
Example:
Danny's preferred name is 'Dan'
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
desirable (worth having or seeking or achieving)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Preferred above all others and treated with partiality
Example:
the favored child
Synonyms:
best-loved; favored; favorite; favourite; pet; preferent; preferred
Classified under:
Similar:
loved (held dear)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb prefer
Context examples:
TRKA is specific for or 'preferred by'
(Nerve Growth Factor Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)
It was not to oblige Jane Fairfax therefore that he would have preferred the society of William Larkins.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He killed to eat, not from wantonness; but he preferred to eat what he killed himself.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I always preferred the church, as I still do.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It is used in research as the preferred marker for detecting CYP1A2-based inhibition potential in vitro.
(Phenacetin, NCI Thesaurus)
At baseline, mice preferred to be in the social chamber, but after researchers inactivated the cerebellar projections into the VTA, the mice no longer showed this preference.
(New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors, National Institutes of Health)
But I had preferred to use my head rather than my body; and here I was, in no fit condition for the rough life in prospect.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They could always talk; and their discourse, witty, pithy, original, had such charms for me, that I preferred listening to, and sharing in it, to doing anything else.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In the recent WHO-EORTC classification, folliculotropic mycosis fungoides is the preferred term for all cases.
(Folliculotropic Mycosis Fungoides, NCI Thesaurus)
And so, because he needed a god and because he preferred Weedon Scott to Beauty Smith, White Fang remained.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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