What's the difference between favorite and love?

Favorite


Definition:

  • (n.) A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority.
  • (n.) Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
  • (n.) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.
  • (a.) Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
  • (2) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
  • (3) MRI can detect as small as 10 mm lesion of hepatic tumor (less than 5 mm in favorite conditions) despite far longer acquisition time compared with CT.
  • (4) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
  • (5) The college football fans are interested in knowing where their favorite players are gonna go and the NFL fans want to know which players are gonna make their team better."
  • (6) We’ll collect all your questions using Guardian Witness and feature our favorites the night of the debate.
  • (7) Respondents showed in-group favoritism in trait evaluations, but this bias was unrelated to aggression.
  • (8) Therefore more is eaten during a meal consisting of a variety of foods than during a meal with just one of the foods, even if that food is the favorite.
  • (9) It was March 2015 and same-sex marriage was on the verge of becoming legal nationwide – carried by probably the swiftest change in public opinion in US history – but the Indiana governor and establishment favorite going into 2016 was standing firm.
  • (10) Walker also began the summer as a strong favorite in the early-voting state of Iowa, where voters seemed inherently drawn to his midwestern persona and retail politics – which have often included traversing from one county to the next on a Harley Davidson.
  • (11) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
  • (12) The bacterially catalyzed formation of nitrosamines in the rectosigmoid is a favorite theroy for the increased risk of colon carcinomas following ureterosigmoidostomy.
  • (13) My favorite response was a simple "it made me feel less alone."
  • (14) Entering the season the Seahawks looked like Super Bowl favorites and little happened during the regular season to suggest otherwise.
  • (15) The Cardinals made quick work of the fan-favorite Pittsburgh Pirates in the NLDS and then defeated the high priced Hollywood product that was the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
  • (16) Now, new employees are always warned, “Just wait until Thanksgiving.” Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
  • (17) Former senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Governor Paul LePage of Maine, favorites of the blue-collar north-east, are likely to be angling for jobs in a Trump White House, but a heartbeat away from the presidency.
  • (18) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
  • (19) The sulfones are the drug of choice in the treatment of leprosy, with dapsone as the clear favorite.
  • (20) His favorite recording of the Ring Cycle is by Wilhelm Furtwängler, a relatively safe choice.

Love


Definition:

  • (n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
  • (n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
  • (n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
  • (n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
  • (n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.
  • (n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.
  • (n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
  • (n.) A thin silk stuff.
  • (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
  • (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.
  • (n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
  • (n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
  • (n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
  • (v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
  • (10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.