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Bias Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bias?
[n] a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
[n] a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side [adj] slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; "a bias fold" [v] cause to be biased [v] influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bias: diagonal | oblique | preconception | predetermine | prejudice Related Terms | Find terms related to Bias: a thing for | aberrancy | aberration | across | affect | affinity | angle | angle off | animus | aptitude | aptness | aslant | aslope | athwart | atilt | bag | bear off | bend | bend to | bendwise | bent | bevel | beveled | biased | biaswise | branching off | canting | careening | cast | catercorner | catercornered | catercornerways | character | chosen kind | circuitousness | color | conatus | conduce | conduciveness | constitution | contribute | corner | cornerways | cornerwise | crook | crossways | crosswise | cup of tea | curve | declination | deflect | delight | departure | detour | deviance | deviancy | deviate | deviation | deviousness | diagonal | diagonally | diagonalwise | diathesis | diffract | diffuse | digression | discrimination | discursion | disperse | dispose | disposition | distort | divagate | divagation | divarication | diverge | divergence | diversion | divert | dogleg | double | drift | drifting | druthers | eagerness | eccentricity | errantry | excursion | excursus | exorbitation | fancy | fascination | favor | favoritism | feeling for | forejudgment | garble | go | grain | hairpin | have a tendency | head | idiosyncrasy | impulse | inclination | inclinational | inclinatory | incline | inclined | inclining | indirection | individualism | induce | inequality | influence | interest | involvement | jaundice | jaundiced eye | kidney | kittycorner | lead | lean | leaning | liability | liking | listing | look to | lurch | make | makeup | mental set | mettle | mind | mind-set | misconstrue | misdirect | misinterpret | misrender | misrepresent | misuse | mold | move | mutual affinity | mutual attraction | nature | nepotism | oblique | oblique angle | oblique figure | oblique line | obliquity | on the bias | one-sidedness | out of plumb | out of square | parti pris | partialism | partiality | particular choice | partisanism | partisanship | penchant | pererration | personal choice | persuade | pervert | pitched | point | point to | preconception | predilection | predispose | predisposition | preference | preferential treatment | prejudgment | prejudice | prejudice against | prejudice the issue | prepossess | prepossession | probability | proclivity | prompt | proneness | propensity | pull | raking | rambling | readiness | recumbent | redound to | refract | rhomboid | scatter | scratch comma | sensitivity to | separatrix | serve | set | set toward | sheer | shelving | shelvy | shift | shifting | shifting course | shifting path | show a tendency | sideling | sidelong | skew | slant | slanted | slanting | slantways | slantwise | slash | sloped | sloping | slue | soft spot | soften up | solidus | stamp | standpoint | strain | straying | streak | stripe | style | susceptibility | sway | sweep | swerve | swerving | swinging | sympathy | tack | taint | taste | temper | temperament | tend | tendency | thing | thwart | tilted | tilting | tinge | tipped | tipping | tipsy | tone | torture | transverse | trend | tropism | turn | turn of mind | turning | twist | type | undetachment | undispassionateness | unneutrality | variation | varnish | veer | verge | viewpoint | virgule | wandering | warp | weakness | wear down | weigh with | weight | willingness | work | work toward | yaw | zigzag See Also | angle | experimenter bias | handicap | homophobia | irrational hostility | partiality | partisanship | prejudice | prejudice | prepossess | prepossess | racism | slant | straight line | taboo | tabu | tendentiousness | weight Bias In Webster's Dictionary \Bi"as\ (b[imac]"as), n.; pl. {Biases} (-[e^]z). [F.
biasis, perh. fr. LL. bifax two-faced; L. bis + facies face.
See {Bi-}, and cf. {Face}.]
1. 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.
Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within
the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward
an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent;
inclination.
Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. --South.
Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to
all their actions. --Locke.
3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as
the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
4. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
Syn: Prepossession; prejudice; partiality; inclination. See
{Bent}.
\Bi"as\, a. 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. \Bi"as\, adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias. \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Biased} (b[imac]"ast); p. pr. & vb. n. {Biasing}.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. --De Quincey. |
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