bias

Meaning

Noun

1. Inclination towards something.
2. The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

Verb

1. To place bias upon; to influence.
2. To give a bias to.

Adj

1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Adv

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

Synonyms

prejudice

partiality

preconception

tendency

inclination

trend

slant

presupposition

favoritism

penchant

diagonal

bent

bigotry

favouritism

offset

deviation

disposition

unfairness

predetermine

predilection

affect

propensity

preconceived opinion

influence

proclivity

misunderstanding

partial

predisposition

preference

misjudgement

slope

preoccupation

prepossess

misjudgment

affection

discrimination

shifting

pitch

systematic error

tilt

leaning

polarization

partisanship

obstinacy

orientation

partial view

ply

polarisation

predispose

preferences

prepossession

proneness

relish

selfishness

shape

sideway

sideways

skew

slanting

slantwise

squint

stereotypes

support

sway

sympathies

sympathy

thrust

tipping

transform

warmheartedness

work

B

B

philia

prejudgment

personal feelings

be awry

be askew

sight error

prejudgement

setover

be aslant

tendentiousness

magnetic biasing

wrong knowledge

acclivity

foredeeming

affectionateness

alter

angle

antipathy

askance

asquint

avocation

axis

b

b

bend

biasing

cant

careen

carry weight

change

choice

conjugation

declivity

differentiate

direction

discriminate

displacement

distort

drive

eccentricity

flair

flexion

form

get to

gradient

impression

inequity

inferiority complex

inflection

inflexion

jaundice

list

misrepresent

modify

narrow-mindedness

nepotism

oblique

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbaɪəs/

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”).