Definition of Bias

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Definition of Bias

Bias

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.

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

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.

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Bias Quotations

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Abdul Kalam

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Barbara Bush

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
Dan Abrams

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean de la Bruyere

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.
Marcus Allen

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
Al Franken

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
Al Franken

Good managers have a bias for action.
Thomas J. Peters

Bias Translations

bias in German is Vorspannung {f}, Ausrichtung {f}, Vorliebe {f}

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