What's the difference between intention and preference?

Intention


Definition:

  • (n.) A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
  • (n.) A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York.
  • (n.) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
  • (n.) The state of being strained. See Intension.
  • (n.) Any mental apprehension of an object.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
  • (2) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
  • (3) The intent of this study was to investigate, by three-dimensional photoelastic analysis, the stress transmission that occurs with four commonly used retentive systems.
  • (4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (5) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (6) negative intention and congruent behavior (CONG-, N = 42).
  • (7) All variables except perceived personal risk were found to be significantly related to the intention to provide medical care although knowledge showed the weakest relationship (Odds Ratio = 2.14).
  • (8) Contrary to the intentions of the devisers of this scale, it has been found that, significantly different assessments may result when the same patient is rated by various groups (psychiatrists, psychologists, students and psychiatric nurses).
  • (9) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (10) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
  • (11) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (12) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
  • (13) The 5-year survival rate corrected for age was 64% in 546 operative survivors, and 82% in 413 patients operated with intent to cure.
  • (14) And they have no intention of letting it out of their grasp.
  • (15) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
  • (16) The intent of this paper is to provide concerned professionals dealing with various aspects of human sexuality with information relevant to anal eroticism.
  • (17) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
  • (18) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (19) But congressional aides said that House speaker John Boehner has not communicated his intentions for a floor vote to Sensenbrenner.
  • (20) With a patient who in suicidal intention had orally taken a larger quantity of Bi 58 EC (dimethoate) especially the behaviour of the serum cholinesterase activity and the whole blood acetylcholinesterase activity was observed over a period of 38 days and it was compared with the clinical appearance.

Preference


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference.
  • (n.) That which is preferred; the object of choice or superior favor; as, which is your preference?

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5-HT thus appears to be the preferred substrate for uptake into platelets and for movement from cytoplasm to vesicles.
  • (2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (3) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (4) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
  • (5) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (6) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
  • (7) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
  • (8) For example, lysine is preferably encoded by the AAA codon if guanosine is 3' to the lysine codon (AAA-G, P less than 10(-9)).
  • (9) The authors consider the latter mechanism preferable.
  • (10) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
  • (11) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
  • (12) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (13) On the basis of a follow-up concerning 41 patients and of data from the literature, the authors report their present surgical approach for mixed tumors, underlining their preference for T.C.P., and limiting S.P.
  • (14) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
  • (15) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (16) Since ASA has a greater potential for adverse effects, paracetamol is increasingly preferred to ASA, particularly in children.
  • (17) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
  • (18) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
  • (19) I preferred the Times version, as my father would have done had he any interest in Sting.
  • (20) In this paper, we change base pairs in the operators and amino acids in the proteins to analyze the basis for these preferences.