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Priority vs Options - What's the difference?

priority | options |

As nouns the difference between priority and options

is that priority is an item's relative importance while options is .

As a verb options is

(option).

priority

Noun

(priorities)
  • An item's relative importance.
  • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  • A goal of a person or an organisation.
  • She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  • (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  • *
  • 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 ."
  • (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 244:
  • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority

    options

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (option)
  • Anagrams

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