bias

Speech parts

1. bias - Noun

2. bias - Adjective

3. bias - Verb

4. bias - Adverb

6. bias - Adjective Satellite

7. Bias - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

prejudice inclination partiality influence bent diagonal sway propensity leaning skew slant predisposition favoritism partisanship predetermine
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Antonyms

jupiter dexter title justice sprite loathing
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Hypernyms

prejudice partisanship partiality prepossess straight line

Hyponyms

tabu islamophobia angle taboo handicap slant

Phrases with the word

on the bias part-whole bias without bias political views bias-free absence of bias racial bias

Derivatives

biases biased biasing biassed biassing

Anagrams

IBSA isba

Examples

Tragedy 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

Close letter words and terms

biarticulate biarticulated biaryl bias against catholics bias against non-heterosexual individuals bias against same-sex relationships