0 to like someone or something more than another person or thing -- tercih etmek, yeğlemek
1 used to say what you want or ask someone what they want -- istemek, tercih etmek, arzu etmek
[ + to do sth ] I'd prefer to go alone.
Surely, early generative phonology in the 1970s provided evidence for preferring deletion to insertion rules for the sake of generality.
Researchers, for instance, can help shape results by anticipating preferred outcomes and subtly providing conditions that favor their development.
The cane-cutters preferred the twelve-month cane; the 24-month cane was reported to be harder to cut, had lodged and was infested with weeds.
Individuals are modelled as instrumentally rational to the extent that they choose those actions that are best calculated to achieve preferred outcomes.
In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating).
Obviously, all else being equal, a higher minimum standard is socially preferred.
Depending on the particular problem and the actual stage of development of a given science, one type may be preferred to another.
Although it would be time-consuming to undertake, an analysis of such cases might throw light upon the circumstances in which he preferred the reiterated note.
