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- Dictionarypredilection/ˌpriːdɪˈlɛkʃn/
noun
- 1. a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favour of something: "my predilection for Asian food"
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Jan 17, 2012 · A predilection for Bach, for example, you prefer Bach to Beethoven, or maybe Chopin, because you’ve experienced all of them before or you like Bach more than Beethoven and Chopin because his style suited you and you would enjoy Bach’s masterpieces again and again. Propensity on the other hand, is a natural inclination or tendency. The word doesn’t have a sense of comparison. It can just ...
May 10, 2016 · It is a very old saying, that dates back at least to the 16th century: . Woolgathering: . 1550s, "indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking," from the literal meaning "gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc." (see wool + gather).
May 18, 2019 · Definition is a statement expressing the essential nature of something (Merriam-Webster).. Definition of something tells you "what that is, what's its essence."
Jan 2, 2014 · Used colloquially since c. 1600 to indicate things the speaker can't name at the moment, often with various meaningless suffixes, e.g. thingumbob (1751), thingamajig (1824). Southern U.S. pronunciation thang attested from 1937. The thing "what's stylish or fashionable" is recorded from 1762.
Autological word. A word is autological or homological if it describes itself. The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym / metacronym/ recursive initialism, this is a fun way to coin names for new programming languages and such.
Jan 11, 2019 · The word predilection literally means “liking before”, to prefer something above all the rest, i.e. to have a favourite. The word is derived from Medieval Latin praediligere to love more. A person who strongly likes fast cars will probably have a predilection for expensive vehicles. The etymology of ‘sage’
These words simply mean - what they normally mean!! vulgar-- common, non-elite. coarse-- not detailed (think of a coarse, versus fine, handsaw, for example)
Jun 23, 2011 · The two sources that have entries define it differently. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia defines it as reception; Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 4E defines it as acquisition; As Mr. Disappointment mentions there is a word (receipt) that is more common and more clearly defined, so unless you have a very good reason to use it I would leave it alone.
I'm fairly sure it's the former, but it sounds even more stilted than the usual cases in which "I" is less common, but more correct.
Jul 8, 2013 · Sometimes, when someone asks you for a "definition," he/she bugs you because you either "defined" when you should have "described" the subject in question or vice versa. What does this mean?
