Bias
['baɪəs]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inclination, bent, leaning, tendency, predilection, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, partiality, prejudice, disposition, predisposition, turn, PENCHANT.
v. a. Influence, incline, prejudice, dispose, predispose.
Editor: Vince
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BENT]
Editor: Rudolf
Definition
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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Examples
- Her memory had an aristocratic bias, and was very treacherous whenever she tried to recall any circumstance connected with those below her in life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What was Mr. Casaubon's bias his acts will give us a clew to. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the political question, I referred simply to intellectual bias. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For, indeed, who is there alive that will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to the place of his birth? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- On the contrary, the knowing that there was such a provision for me probably did bias me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I am aware, he said, that the peculiar bias of medical ability is towards material means. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Rather would I submit to the biased judgment of Zat Arras than be the cause of civil strife in Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If you could be supposed to be biased in any respect by your own feelings, your opinion would not be worth having. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I have no doubt that I was biased, but I think it was blamelessly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Once she is my wife, and away from that influence, she will learn to be more self-reliant, and less biassed by other people. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But he could never make up his mind promptly, as he wavered this way, that way, according as he was biassed by circumstances. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Local aid is always either worthless or else biassed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her power was limited, and the consciousness of this limitation had biassed her development. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Which you suppose has biassed me? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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