Definition of bias

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Bias (adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias..

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Bent :: Bent (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause..
Ply :: Ply (v.) Bent; turn; direction; bias.
Impartiality :: Impartiality (n.) The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward..
Equitable :: Equitable (a.) Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men..
Bias :: Bias (v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
Favor :: Favor (n.) Partiality; bias.
Prejudicate :: Prejudicate (a.) Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced.
Influence :: Influence (v. t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce..
Indifference :: Indifference (n.) Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias..
Unbias :: Unbias (v. t.) To free from bias or prejudice.
Unbiased :: Unbiased (a.) Free from bias or prejudice; unprejudiced; impartial.
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman..
Evenhanded :: Evenhanded (a.) Fair or impartial; unbiased.
Biasing :: Biasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bia.
Prepossess :: Prepossess (v. t.) To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset..
Pharynx :: Pharynx (n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias..
Dispassionate :: Dispassionate (a.) Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial; as, dispassionate proceedings; a dispassionate view..
Prepossession :: Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood..
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