Preferred

Definition

prefer /prÇ'fɜ:(r)/ v (-rr-) ~ sth (to sth) ပို၍ ႏွစ္သက္သည္။ တစ္ခုခုကို ေရြးခ်ယ္သည္။ ဆႏၵရိွသည္။ plants that prefer full sunlight ❍ 'Coffee or tea?'' I'd prefer tea, thanks. ' ❍ the preferred candidate ❍ I prefer sorbet to ice-cream. ❍ A local firm is to be preferred (to one from outside the area). ❍ I prefer my coffee black. ❍ She actually prefers to do things by herself. ❍ He decided he'd prefer not to say anything. ❍ Their father prefers them to be home early. ❍ I prefer walking to cycling. ❍ ( Brit fml ) ❍ I would prefer that you did not/ prefer it if you did not print this story. ❏ preferable /'prefrǝbl/ adj (more ႏွင့္တြဲ၍မသံုး)။ ~ (to sth/ doing sth) ပိုမိုႏွစ္သက္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ သင့္ေလ်ာ္[ေသာ]။ လိုလားဖြယ္ျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ ပိုေကာင္း [ေသာ]။ Written authority is preferable. ❍ Anything was preferable to the strained atmosphere at home. ❍ He finds country life infinitely preferable to living in the city. ❏ preferably /'prefrǝbli/ adv ျဖစ္ႏိုင္က။ She wanted a cake, preferably one with chocolate icing. ❍ They want to buy a new house, near the university preferably.

Examples

1. Which do you prefer
2. the red or the blue one?
3. [much prefer someone/something] : I much prefer your hair like that.
4. [prefer someone/something to someone/something] : Even today
5. most Americans prefer coffee to tea.
6. [prefer to do something] : Do you prefer to exercise indoors or out of doors?
7. [prefer doing something] : I prefer working on my own.
8. [prefer someone to do something] : I’d prefer you to drive
9. if you don’t mind.
10. [prefer something (to be) something] : I prefer my curry a little spicier.
11. [would prefer (that)] : I’d prefer that the job were a little closer to my home.
12. [someone would prefer it if] : The doctor would prefer it if you could come a little earlier.
13. [something is to be preferred to something] : The original is definitely to be preferred to this inferior new version.