Bias

['baɪəs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.

(verb.) cause to be biased.

(verb.) influence in an unfair way; 'you are biasing my choice by telling me yours'.

(adj.) slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; 'a bias fold' .

珍妮整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.

(n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.

(n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

(n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

(a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

(a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

(adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

(v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Inclination, bent, leaning, tendency, predilection, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, partiality, prejudice, disposition, predisposition, turn, PENCHANT.

v. a. Influence, incline, prejudice, dispose, predispose.

錄入:文斯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See BENT]

整理:鲁道夫

解釋/意思:

n. a bulge or greater weight on one side of a bowl (in the game of bowling) making it slope or turn to one side: a slant or leaning to one side: a one-sided inclination of the mind prejudice: any special influence that sways the mind.—v.t. to cause to turn to one side: to prejudice or prepossess:—pa.p. bī′ased or bī′assed.—ns. Bī′as-draw′ing (Shak.) a turn awry; Bī′asing a bias or inclination to one side.

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