Sentence examples for preferred sense from inspiring English sources

The preferred sense of disinterested as 'impartial', for example, has coexisted for centuries with its frowned-upon sense as 'bored'bored

Lewis, who accepts the universality of mereological summation, does not deny that possible objects in this sense are as real as possible objects in his preferred sense.

Do you prefer Sense 4 on top of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, or would you prefer to play with Microsoft.

In modern philosophy the word is sometimes used for what is immediately apprehended by the senses before any judgment is made; it has, however, never become a technical term, many philosophers preferring sense-datum or some such expression though they commonly accept the cognate forms phenomenalism and phenomenology.

But this theoretical formulation and definition have been given in terms of the geometry of spacetime, not in terms of the relations between bodies; acceleration is 'absolute' in the sense that there is a preferred (true) sense of acceleration in mechanics and which is not defined in terms of the motions of bodies relative to one another.

As a listener, I've always preferred the sense of the live, where you can pick up the energy of the night and the sense of occasion".

Of course, the couple could both have said "What fools," or "Thank God they're there," or, for that matter, "Let's go to McDonald's," but he preferred to sense something more.

In practice, indirect measurements are preferred during sense operation, in which electrical quantities are measured in order to determine time to recovery.

The oligos to map the mitochondrial genes were selected as follows: (i) more than one sequence was selected per gene; (ii) stretches of repeating oligonucleotides were avoided; (iii) a balanced AT and GC content was preferred; (iv) sense and antisense strands were considered; and (v) all sequences were blasted against GenBank database to check for cross hybridisation.

Small diameter optical fibers are preferred in sensing systems as they have less influence on mechanical performance of smart composite.

Excitation in the red part of the spectrum is strongly preferred for sensing and imaging of oxygen and glucose (via oxygen transduction) in highly scattering media and in tissues (24− 24−.