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| biased | |
| She biased them against him for no apparent reason. |  |
| 1. adj. exhibiting bias; prejudiced | |
| The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident. | |
| 2. adj. angled at a slant | |
| The table had a biased edge. | |
| 3. adj. (electrical engineering) on which an electrical bias is applied | |
| 4. adj. (statistics) exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation. | |
| bias | |
| 1. n. Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection. | |
| 2. n. (textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric. | |
| 3. n. (textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. | |
| 4. n. (electronics) 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. n. (statistics) 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. n. (sports) 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 s | |
| 7. n. (fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band. | |
| 8. v. To place bias upon; to influence. | |
| Our prejudices bias our views. | |
| 9. adj. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. | |
| 10. adj. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. | |
| 11. adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally. | |
| to cut cloth bias | |
