bias

[ bahy-uhs ]

SEE DEFINITION OF bias

nounbelief in one way; partiality
noundiagonal weave of fabric
verbcause to favor

Antonyms for bias

convert

verb. change belief, especially regarding religion

converting

verb. change belief, especially regarding religion

Word Origin & History

1520s, from French biais "slant, slope, oblique," also figuratively, "expedient, means" (13c., originally in Old French a past participle adjective, "sideways, askance, against the grain"), of unknown origin, probably from Old Provençal biais, with cognates in Old Catalan and Sardinian; possibly from Vulgar Latin *(e)bigassius, from Greek epikarsios "athwart, crosswise, at an angle," from epi- "upon" + karsios "oblique," from PIE *krs-yo-, from root *(s)ker- "to cut." It became a noun in Old French. "[A] technical term in the game of bowls, whence come all the later uses of the word" [OED]. Transferred sense of "predisposition, prejudice" is from 1570s in English.

Example Sentences forbias

This bias springs from causes which are stable and deep-rooted.

My son believed that this bias for Classics was bad educationally.

But then I can afford a bias; am only making observations from "a Terrace in Prague."

The bias of the age is as natural and as dangerous an element in criticism as the bias of the individual.

It would be just as ridiculous on your part to affect a bias which was not natural to you.

The bias of loyalty is not a matter on which argument is tolerated.

Most people have a bias in favor of their own chosen field of interest.

The bias strip should be basted on and sewn with a running-stitch.

Bias band—applying to top of ruffle in petticoats and drawers.

No statement of this kind is unbiased, for the pacifist has his own bias.

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