1. bias - Noun
2. bias - Adjective
3. bias - Verb
4. bias - Adverb
6. bias - Adjective Satellite
7. Bias - Proper noun
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.
A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. George Steiner
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. Gustav Stresemann
Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad. Diogenes Laërtius
I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other. Hillary Clinton
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias. John Derbyshire
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias. Simone de Beauvoir