Preference vs Appointment - What's the difference?
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The selection of one thing or person over others.
The option to so select, and the one selected.
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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.
The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.
Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
(Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment ) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
(Government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
Equipment, furniture.
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia :
(US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
Preference is a related term of appointment.
As nouns the difference between preference and appointment
is that preference is preference while appointment is the act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.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.}}
Verb
(preferenc)See also
* preferences ----appointment
English
(wikipedia appointment)Noun
(en noun)- He erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
- the appointment of treasurer
- They made an appointment to meet at six.
- I'm leaving work early because I have a doctor's appointment .
- To submit to the divine appointments .
- According to the appointment of the priests. --Ezra vi. 9.
- The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on.