(v. t.) To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc.
(v. t.) To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass.
(v. t.) To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general.
(v. t.) To set above or before something else in estimation, favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater favor; to choose rather; -- often followed by to, before, or above.
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.
Preyer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The animals' Preyer reflex thresholds were determined at intervals during the study.
(2) On hundred forty six male Harley guinea pigs, weighing about 350 grs, all susceptible to preyer's reflex, were used in this study.
(3) Our purpose is to find the minimum auditory level for the Preyer reflex in normally-hearing guinea pigs, examining a range of frequencies between 125 and 8,000 Hz.
(4) Preyer's reflex threshold at 8 kHz began to increase after the 5th day of kanamycin treatment and disappeared on the 11th day.
(5) The Preyer reflex turns up in a reliable and constant way in those frequencies between 500 and 6,000 Hz.
(6) The effects of single and repeated combinations of gentamicin and sound on Preyer reflex and cochlear hair cells in pigmented guinea pigs have been examined.
(7) Fourteen guinea pigs with normal Preyer reflex were anesthetized and tracheotomy was performed.
(8) Cyclophosphamide treatment resulted in disturbed Preyer and corneal reflexes and enhanced the incidence of antigen appearance and histopathological changes.
(9) Auditory dysfunction that showed the difference between the right and left ears was confirmed by auditory brain stem response and Preyer's reflex in the animals with spontaneous nystagmus.
(10) Normal control rats (N:45) and 27 genetically hyperbilirubinemic rats from an NIH colony were tested for the Preyer reflex (Pr) threshold using pure tones.
(11) It is very interesting to note that moderate endolymphatic hydrops was found in animals one year after Preyer's reflex had disappeared.
(12) Acoustic function was also evaluated by measuring Preyer's pinna reflex.
(13) Normal Preyer reflex thresholds do not necessarily mean normal hearing, but increased thresholds do indicate hearing impairment.
(14) Twenty-four Preyer's reflex normal guinea pigs were exposed to the octave bands of noise at 63 Hz and 4 kHz, 110 dB A (SPL).
(15) Loss of Preyer reflex and suppression of the N1 amplitude occurred in cisplatin-treated animals and was described as dose-related.
(16) While the Preyer reflex is thus not necessarily a good predictor of the conditioned-response audiogram, it may come to be a useful index of loudness sensitivity.
(17) Before and after each implantation, special tests (Preyer-reflex, otoscopy, impedance audiometry) were performed for preliminary selection of the animals and to discover postoperative induced disturbances of sound conduction in the middle ear.
(18) Amikacin causes the most pronounced physiological damage observed by the early loss of Preyer reflex and general toxic signs--these observations correspond with the morphological findings.
(19) An unconditioned stop reaction on tones was used in 9- to 11-day-old mice, then an unconditioned pinna reflex that can be elicited at low intensities and is not equal to the Preyer reflex.
(20) Animals treated in such a way showed marked signs of impaired inner ear function, including loss of postural control and loss of Preyer's reflex.