Sentence examples for preferred meaning from inspiring English sources

In the dominant case, the hybrid and the transgenic genotypes are equally preferred, meaning that when their preference in mating is zero, neither one is able to mate and the wild genotype gets all the matings.

"Somebody is paying for that drop in valuation," said Maarten Hooft, managing partner at Quest Venture Partners, "and I assume it's going to be the common shareholders rather than the preferred, meaning that that common shareholders will get diluted to pay back the preferred".

Each homonym had a preferred meaning, which was at least 20% more frequent than its alternative, subordinate interpretation.

Before you pick up the phone and ask, it is highly advisable to do some research on what kind of articles this editor usually prefers, meaning which science stories were printed in the particular paper during the last few weeks.

Once you plow through the manual (which is essential reading), you can program all your preferred settings, meaning the oven will remember just which shade of sienna you like your toast.

The administrators said their problems began about a decade ago when insurance companies offered to make their hospitals "preferred providers," meaning that patients insured by the companies would go to those hospitals en masse, if the hospitals slashed their prices.

Ball and the more industrial residents of the city supported the name "Meridian," believing the term to be synonymous with "junction"; the more agrarian residents of the city preferred "Sowashee" (meaning "mad river" in a Native American language), the name of a nearby creek; and Ragsdale proposed "Ragsdale City".

Almost 30percentt of adult smokers prefer menthol products, meaning millions of Americans would suddenly and arbitrarily be denied their preference of cigarette.

Based on a systematic literature review, this paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how different ethno-cultural groups use, perceive, prefer, and assign meaning to urban nature.

In such an integrated situation, the room 2 will be empty and the potential of room 2 for both types of agents will be 0. If oscillation is to be obtained, the potential is such that the type X agents should prefer room 2, meaning that the potential of room 1 should be less than 0 for the X-type agents.

Zookeeper Jennifer Gainer told Reuters that little penguins prefer milder temperatures, meaning Bowie and his colony would probably not be out until spring.