'Bias' definitions:
Definition of 'bias'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; "a bias fold"
noun
A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation [syn: bias, prejudice, preconception]
noun
A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias]
verb
Influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"
verb
Cause to be biased [syn: bias, predetermine]
Definition of 'Bias'
From: GCIDE
- Bias \Bi"as\, a.
- 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bias'
From: GCIDE
- Bias \Bi"as\, adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bias'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bias'
From: GCIDE
- Bias \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. [1913 Webster]
- Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination. [1913 Webster]
- Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Prepossession; prejudice; partiality; inclination. See Bent. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bias'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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