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Favourite vs Preferr - What's the difference?

favourite | preferr |

As verbs the difference between favourite and preferr

is that favourite is while preferr is .

As an adjective favourite

is preferred or liked above all others (unless qualified).

As a noun favourite

is a person who enjoys special regard or favour.

favourite

English

(wikipedia favourite)

Alternative forms

* (American English) favorite

Alternative forms

* (US ) favorite

Adjective

(-)
  • Preferred or liked above all others (unless qualified.)
    • This is my second favourite occupation.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who enjoys special regard or favour.
  • A person who is preferred or trusted above all others.
  • A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.
    • You were my favourite to win the spelling competition.
  • (in the plural) A short curl dangling over the temples, fashionable in the reign of (Charles II).
    • (Farquhar)

    Verb

    (favourit)
  • (Internet) To bookmark.
  • (Internet) To add to one's list of favourites on a website that allows users to compile such lists.

    • preferr

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1628, author=Samuel Ward, title=A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Let us then feede his flocke with a trebble zeale, expressed in our prayer, preaching and living: Let us make it appeare to the consciences of all, that the top of our ambition is Gods glory: and that wee preferr the winning of soules, to the winning of the world. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1664, author=Robert Boyle, title=Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But, Pyrophilus'', though this be at present the Hypothesis I preferr , yet I propose it but in a General Sense, teaching only that the Beams of Light, Modify'd by the Bodies whence they are sent (Reflected or Refracted) to the Eye, produce there that Kind of Sensation, Men commonly call Colour; But whether I think this Modification of the Light to be perform'd by Mixing it with Shades, or by Varying the Proportion of the Progress and Rotation of the ''Cartesian Globuli Caelestes , or by some other way which I am not now to mention, I pretend not here to Declare. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1699, author=John Evelyn, title=Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Thistle, Carduus Mariae''; our Lady's milky or dappl'd Thistle, disarm'd of its Prickles, is worth esteem: The young Stalk about ''May'', being peel'd and soak'd in Water, to extract the bitterness, boil'd or raw, is a very wholsome ''Sallet'', eaten with ''Oyl'', ''Salt'', and ''Peper''; some eat them sodden in proper Broath, or bak'd in Pies, like the ''Artichoak ; but the tender Stalk boil'd or fry'd, some preferr ; both Nourishing and Restorative. 69. }}