prefer

prefer

1. prefer something to something pitää jostakin enemmän kuin, pitää parempana, suosia

Esimerkkejä:

I 'prefer' grey to pink.

:'Pidän' harmaasta 'enemmän kuin' vaaleanpunaisesta.

Liittyvät sanat: preference

Synonyymisanakirja

prefer

verrata, vertailla, valita, pitää parempana, jättäytyä pois, luistaa, pitää, pitää enemmän, suosia, maksaa, ylentää, antaa ylennys.

Liittyvät sanat: preferenssi.

Rimmaavat sanat

prefer rimmaa näiden kanssa:

loafer, schäfer...

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Englannin sanakirja

prefer (englanti > suomi)

1. pitää parempana

prefer englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To advance, promote (someone). (defdate)

2. (RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), II.3.2:

Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers(nb..).

3. puhekieltä To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. (defdate)

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4. (RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt)

"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;(nb..)."

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

6. puhekieltä To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend ((m)). (defdate)

7. 1630, (w), True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p.36:

one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King James.

8. 1817, (w), (w), XVII:

Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current, and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept(nb..).

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