Attachment vs Preference - What's the difference?
attachment | preference |
The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
* 2005 , Rebecca N. Baergen, Manual of Benirschke and Kaufmann's Pathology of the Human Placenta , page 71:
A strong bonding towards or with.
A dependence, especially a strong one.
* 2003 , Griffith Edwards, Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug , page 63:
A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
* 1978 , Walter H. Wager, Time of reckoning , page 194:
The means by which something is physically attached.
* 2012 , Sinikka Elliott, Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers , page 46:
(computing) A file sent along with an email.
(legal) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
(meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
* 2009 , Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics'', published in the ''Journal of Lightning Research , volume 1
The selection of one thing or person over others.
The option to so select, and the one selected.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The state of being preferred over others.
A strong liking or personal valuation.
A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
(US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
As nouns the difference between attachment and preference
is that attachment is the act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching while preference is preference.attachment
English
Noun
- The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
- I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
- Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
- Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment ,
- [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
- attachment of earnings
Derived terms
* attachment disorder ----preference
English
(wikipedia preference)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(Preferans) (en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}