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Prefer vs Adorn - What's the difference?

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Prefer is a related term of adorn.


As verbs the difference between prefer and adorn

is that prefer is while adorn is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

As a noun adorn is

(obsolete) adornment.

prefer

English

Alternative forms

* * preferre

Verb

(preferr)
  • *, II.3.2:
  • *:Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers.
  • (lb) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
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  • *
  • *:"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;."
  • (lb) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").
  • *1630 , , 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.
  • *1817 , (Walter Scott), , 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.
  • Usage notes

    * The verb can be used in three different forms: *
  • prefer'' + noun + ''to'' (or ''over'') + noun. Example: ''I prefer coffee to tea .
  • *
  • prefer'' + gerund + ''to'' (or ''over'') + gerund. Example: ''I prefer skiing to swimming .
  • *
  • prefer'' + full infinitive + ''rather than'' + bare infinitive. Example: ''I prefer to eat fish rather than (eat) meat .
  • Derived terms

    * preference * preferential

    adorn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
    a character adorned with every Christian grace
    a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters
  • * Bible, Isa. lxi. 10
  • as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
  • * Goldsmith
  • At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.

    Synonyms

    * beautify * bedeck * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See also

    Noun

  • (obsolete) adornment
  • (Spenser)

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