Bias is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BIAS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cause to incline to one side
• cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something
• give a bias to
• 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.
• influence in an unfair way
• cause to be biased
• cause to have a bias
NOUN:
• inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair
• a concentration on or interest in one particular area or subject
• a systematic distortion of a statistical result due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation.
• a direction diagonal to the weave of a fabric
• (in bowls) the irregular shape given to one side of a bowl.
• the oblique course taken by a bowl as a result of its irregular shape.
• a steady voltage, magnetic field, or other factor applied to a system or device to cause it to operate over a predetermined range.
• mental tendency, esp prejudice
• 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.
• a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
• a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
ADVERB:
• obliquely
ADJECTIVE:
• Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
• Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
• slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric
• slanting obliquely
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prejudice

Words related to BIAS

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Words that contain BIAS

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How to use BIAS in a sentence

• Gould Bias, Franklin Turner, Augustus Greene, James M.
• Unconscious bias no man can escape, but from conscious bias I trust I shall be free.
• It is very likely that the bias of temperament makes us incapable of decision.
• This was somewhere near the facts, though stated with a strong friendly bias.
• He was the only man ever born who lived and wrote absolutely without bias or prejudice.
• Both by political tradition and popular bias the Florentine republic was favorable to France.
• In spite of a somewhat too pronounced partisan bias, its value is great.
• If his bias is one of interest, of class, or creed, or notorious propaganda, then that fact certainly proves that he is not an impartial arbiter.
• And as the chief reporter at the paper, it fell to my lot to deliver the news with this bias.
• If I remember correctly, Fernandes said that Mascarenhas has a personal bias against Bandodkar regarding the withdrawal of government advertisement.
• More than half is left to nature, but his scarce perceptible touches bias nature.
• I have first to say, therefore, that if I have had a bias, it was always a bias in favour of democracy, and therefore of tradition.
• After much consideration, and with assuredly no bias against Mr.
• This is a bias which antiquity must meet and, if it may, master.
• From the earliest history of man down to the present time all the wars and bloodshed which have taken place were caused either by religious, racial, political or sectarian bias.
• Yet it does retain at any rate the bias of a tendency.
• Bemiss himself recognized the possibility of this bias.
• A good illustration of the unconscious bias, which I tried to avoid is afforded by the reports on the cause of death among children of first cousins.
• As nothing else is at present known about either, the investigation could probably be made without passion or party or even religious bias.
• Who would give a hang for any old ancestor so cut on the bias? I cannot write any more.
• Against each and every bias of observers we must be watchful.
• In all missionary accounts of savage religion, we have to guard against two kinds of bias.
• But every one of these papers has had some party or personal bias, which has given it a powerful interest to make out a case.
• A certain bias and deviation from strict reason seems, indeed, inseparable from any moral reform, from any doctrine that is to be practically and immediately influential.
• When a child of God is released from the body, he is freed from the remains of depravity, and form this native bias to evil, and according to his nature, made perfect in holiness.
• Not without a decided bias, this latter work is specially valuable as the narration of an eye-witness.
• Yet it is not until the system has become at least in a great measure used to such physical effort that one can judge without bias.
• Douglas resented the suggestion with such warmth, however, that it is charitable to suppose he was not conscious of the bias under which he had labored.

Similar words containing BIA without suffix s

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