Priority vs Imperative - What's the difference?
priority | imperative |
An item's relative importance.
A goal of a person or an organisation.
(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
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(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
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essential
(computing theory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
(grammar) of, or relating to the imperative mood
Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
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(uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
(countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
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As a noun priority
is an item's relative importance.As an adjective imperative is
.priority
English
(wikipedia priority)Noun
(priorities)- He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
- She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
- Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
Derived terms
* aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priorityimperative
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- It is imperative that you come here right now.
- imperative orders
- The suits of kings are imperative .
Noun
- The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative .
- Visiting Berlin is an imperative .