bias
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570).
From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century.
The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”).
Inflected forms:
form: biases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: biasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: biases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: biasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: biasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: biassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: biased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: biased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: biassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: biassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more bias
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bias
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclination towards something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Morality […] give[s] a bias to all their [men's] actions.
nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much
Researchers worry that the people who are building artificial intelligence systems may be building their own biases into the technology.
Reshaping [of British Railways] was far from perfect. It was tainted by statistical overreach, the unconscious biases of its author, and by the political demands being placed upon the BRB by government.
gloss: The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: there is a concealed bias within the spheroid
gloss: A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.
Sweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.
One in particular, Minho, really caught my eye. He became what is called my bias or favorite member.
gloss: To place bias upon; to influence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our prejudices bias our views.
No doubt they overlook the L.M.R.'s allegedly faulty financial estimates for the Euston-Liverpool/Manchester scheme, which have biassed the Treasury, and perhaps the open-minded Dr. Beeching, against electrification without renewed examination of projects.
gloss: To give a bias to.
pos: verb
examples: 2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87.
On the ohmic side n⁺ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector.
gloss: Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
pos: adj
examples: Thou, trumpet, there’s my purſe; / Now cracke thy lungs, and ſplit thy braſen pipe: / Blow, villaine, till thy ſphered Bias cheeke / Out-ſwell the collicke of puft Aquilon: / Come, ſtretch thy cheſt, and let thy eyes ſpout bloud: / Thou bloweſt for Hector.
gloss: Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of biased (“exhibiting bias; prejudiced”).
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
examples: Tom's vitality and energy were perfect for the role and I think Milos made the perfect choice! Am I bias? Certainly ... but for good reason!
I wont deny I'm bias to Godzilla, and I guess that got mixed in my post, though I tried not to. But I really did mean to point out that we're getting mixed reviews on the film, and not to give up hope because of what Norman had to say.
Viewing HHH's early works (when his filmic style didn't completely mature), I'm "bias" to love them because they gave me the Taiwanese flavor which I couldn't get from mainland China directors' works.
Waddaya want, he sounds like a sales guy whose main customers are contractors. Of course he's bias and ready to defend his bread and butter.
gloss: In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: to cut cloth bias
Derived words: antibias
attrition bias
automation bias
availability bias
biasable
bias binding
bias distortion
bias lighting
biasness
bias-ply
bias-robust
bias tape
biaswise
brake bias
Chebyshev's bias
cognitive bias
confirmation bias
debias
disposition bias
Dunning-Kruger bias
forward bias
healthy user bias
healthy worker bias
Malmquist bias
maybe baby bias
metabias
myside bias
negativity bias
nonbias
normalcy bias
normality bias
on the bias
overbias
part-whole bias
publication bias
rebias
recency bias
selection bias
survival bias
survivor bias
survivorship bias
unbias
unbiased
windshield bias
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