Prefer vs Elect - What's the difference?
prefer | elect | Synonyms |
*, 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.
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 .
One chosen or set apart.
(uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
* Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1
* Bible, Luke xviii. 7
To choose or make a decision (to do something)
To choose (a candidate) in an election
(used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
* Spenser
* Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
Prefer is a synonym of elect.
As verbs the difference between prefer and elect
is that prefer is while elect is to choose or make a decision (to do something).As a noun elect is
one chosen or set apart.As an adjective elect is
(used only after the noun) who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.prefer
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Alternative forms
* * preferreVerb
(preferr)Usage notes
* The verb can be used in three different forms: *Derived terms
* preference * preferentialelect
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Noun
(en-noun)- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
- Shall not God avenge his won elect ?
Antonyms
* reprobateVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- He is the President-elect .
- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect .
- colours quaint elect
- the elect angels