What's the difference between giving and preferential?

Giving


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Give
  • (n.) The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
  • (n.) A gift; a benefaction.
  • (n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (3) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (4) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (6) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (7) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (8) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (10) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (11) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (12) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (13) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
  • (14) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (15) The DDE also undergoes photocyclization to give dichlorofluorene derivatives.
  • (16) Similar results were obtained giving 1.2 g sodium valproate.
  • (17) Of the N-acetyl cysteamine derivatives tested, S-acetyl-N-acetyl cysteamine (at 10 mM) gives almost complete protection against inactivation whereas S-acetoacetyl-, S-beta-hydroxybutyryl-, and S-crotonyl-N-acetyl cysteamine thioesters exhibit either slight or no protection.
  • (18) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
  • (19) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
  • (20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.

Preferential


Definition:

  • (a.) Giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
  • (2) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
  • (3) Cyclosporine is a fungal endecapeptide of novel chemical structure that causes preferential inhibition of T helper cells.
  • (4) The results are discussed in terms of a two-site model in which separate, but interacting, regions exist on the enzyme to accommodate the adenosine and nicotinamide moieties of NAD, and a single-site model in which the adenosine part of the molecule is bound preferentially and this interacts with the nicotinamide fraction.
  • (5) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
  • (6) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
  • (7) Furthermore it is this small compartment that is preferentially radioactively labelled during short-term incubations with radioactively labelled precursors.
  • (8) Early in the infection, the 5'-most site, L1, is used preferentially, whereas late in infection, all sites are used equivalently.
  • (9) If these is the case the Ir gene (genes) would be the Keystone for maintaining the preferential associations of some pseudoalleles in some haplotypes.
  • (10) Jacalin preferentially bound to alpha-linked non-reducing D-galactose.
  • (11) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
  • (12) The chiral intercalators, at micromolar concentrations, inhibit the reaction of EcoRI, but for each enantiomeric pair it is the lambda enantiomer, which binds only poorly to a B-DNA helix, that inhibits EcoRI preferentially.
  • (13) It was found that the use of a pH 9.6 buffer during the coating of ELISA plates led to the dissociation of virions into subunits which bound preferentially to the solid phase.
  • (14) We speculate that the preferential rupture of the H2B-H4 contact is of physiological significance.
  • (15) Glial siphoning can distribute the potassium preferentially toward the blood vessels in the area, leading to an elevation in potassium concentration in the ECF surrounding the vascular smooth muscle of the arterioles.
  • (16) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
  • (17) SPE A preferentially activated T cells expressing V beta 8 but not V beta 3, 6, or 11, while SPEs B and C preferentially stimulated T cells which did not express any of the tested V beta s.
  • (18) Simultaneous metabolic studies of human normal fibrinogen and asialofibrinogen in rabbits revealed only a modest decrease in the half-life of the asialoprotein compared to the intact protein, with no preferential uptake of the asialo-derivative by the liver.
  • (19) When fermented in preferential media it produces geldanamycin, nigericin, nocardamine, and a libanamycin-like activity.
  • (20) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.