PREFERENCE

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Traducere în limba română

preference¹ substantiv

1. preferinţă;

preference of A to / over B preferinţă pentru A faţă de B;

of the two this is my preference din cele două o prefer pe aceasta.

2. lucrul căruia i se dă preferinţă.

3. întâietate, prioritate, precădere (mai ales la plata datortilor).

4. tarif vamal preferenţial;

imperial preference privilegiu imperial (taxe vamale reduse pentru mărfurile exportate de Marea Britanie în Dominioane).

preference² substantiv

preferans (joc de cărţi).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Mr. Dixon's preference of her music to her friend's, I can answer for being very decided.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I am convinced that she is not without a decided preference.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and hence my preference for a dirty face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was generally evident whenever they met, that he did admire her and to her it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She wondered that Lucy's spirits could be so very much elevated by the civility of Mrs. Ferrars;—that her interest and her vanity should so very much blind her as to make the attention which seemed only paid her because she was NOT ELINOR, appear a compliment to herself—or to allow her to derive encouragement from a preference only given her, because her real situation was unknown.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade’s facts.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I bought a second-hand dumb-waiter for this dinner-party, in preference to re-engaging the handy young man; against whom I had conceived a prejudice, in consequence of meeting him in the Strand, one Sunday morning, in a waistcoat remarkably like one of mine, which had been missing since the former occasion.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

We found that a certain region of our brains has a stronger preference for sounds with pitch than macaque monkey brains, said Bevil Conway, Ph.D., investigator in the NIH’s Intramural Research Program and a senior author of the study.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

In addition, continuous silencing of the cerebellar-VTA pathway was found to completely prevent the expression of social preference behavior in the mice, findings which indicate that inputs from the cerebellum into the VTA are necessary for social preference behavior in mice.

(New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors, National Institutes of Health)

But whether he were entirely free from peculiar attachment—whether there were no actual preference—remained a little longer doubtful.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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