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Definition: Bias |
BiasAdjective1. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; "a bias fold". Noun1. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation. 2. A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side. Verb1. Influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours". 2. Cause to be biased. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bias" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Condition where, during the generation of random or pseudo-random numbers, the occurrence of some numbers is more likely than others. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The departure from a reference value of the average of a set of values. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | A fixed or slowly-varying voltage or current at the input to a device that sets the operating point in the absence of an applied signal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An inaudible, high-frequency signal combined with an audio signal recorded on analogue tape to magnetise it properly and reduce distortion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Information | A phase relation between two terms indicating that a subject has been treated as background for users who are specialists in another field. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bias The weight in bowls which makes them deviate from the straight line; hence any favourite idea or pursuit, or whatever predisposes the mind in a particular direction. Bowls are not now loaded, but the bias depends on the shape of the bowls. They are flattened on one side, and therefore roll obliquely. "Your stomach makes your fabric roll, Just as the bias rules the bowl." Prior: Alma, iii. line 1281. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Meteorology & Standards | An accelerometer output when no acceleration is applied. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, depriving a statistical result of representativeness by systematically distorting it. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A bias is a prejudice in a general or specific sense, usually in the sense for having a predilection to one particular view or ideology. One is said to be biased if one is influenced by one's biases. A bias could for example lead one to accept or non-accept the truth of a claim, not because of the strength of the claim itself, but because it does or does not correspond to one's own preconceived ideas.
An example of bias is having an Americo-centric point of view (the point of view of an Americann, in particular one from the US), or similar for another country.
Systematic bias is also possible in news coverage and may be detected through empirical analysis. For an example, see the statistical findings reported in "Reporting a New Delhi Bias? A Content Analysis of AP Wire Stories on the Conflicts in Sri Lanka and Kashmir," by John Hickman and Sarah Bartlett, in Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies, Volume 6, Number 3 (Spring 2002) at http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v613/sri.htm ).
A systematic bias is a bias resulting from some system. For example, a committee on evolution that meets in a Christian church and is primarilly advertised through fliers in Bibles may have a bias towards Christian views of evolution.
Related: Bias (book by Bernard Goldberg)
See also: Neutral.
In statistics, the word bias has at least two different senses, one referring to something considered very bad, the other referring to something that is occasionally desirable. See bias (statistics).
In philosophy of science and experiment design, bias refers to psychological factors which affect scientific hypothesis testing. The variants culture bias, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, infrastructure bias, and notation bias are widely recognized.
In electrical engineering, the term bias has the following meanings:
Bias is also a term used for a high-frequency AC signal added to the audio signal recorded onto magnetic tape. This signal is used to inaudibly correct for the non-linearity of the magnetic characteristics (see coercivity) of the tape, thus lowering the distortion of the recording. Different levels of bias are needed for different types of tape, hence most recorders offer a bias setting switch on the front panel, or switch automatically according to cutouts on the tape cassette shell.
Bias is used in direct broadcast satellites such as DirecTV and Dish Network, the IRD box actually powers the feedhorn or LNB receiver mounted on the dish arm. This bias is changed from a lower voltage to a higher voltage to select the polarization of the LNB, so that it receives signals that are polarized either clockwise or counterclockwise, thereby allowing it to receive twice as many channels.
This should also mention bias as the term defined here: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=bias, def 2.
Bias is a commune in the Landes département, in France.
On a woven fabric, the bias is the 45-degree diagonal line, along which it is most stretchable, and along which the fabric is often cut.
See also: textile
In sports, bias is the irregular weight or shape of a ball, which may cause it to curve or swerve in an unexpected manner. That result may also in itself be called bias. (From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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One meaning is involved in what is called a biased sample: If some elements are more likely to be chosen in the sample than others, and those that are have a higher or lower value of the quantity being estimated, the outcome will be higher or lower than the true value.
A famous case of what can go wrong when using a biased sample, is found in the 1936 US presidential election polls. The Literary Digest held a poll that forecast that Alfred E. Landon would defeat Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 57% to 43%. George Gallup, using a much smaller sample (300,000 rather than 2,000,000), predicted Roosevelt would win, and he was right. What went wrong with the Literary Digest poll? They had used lists of telephone and automobile owners to select their sample. In those days, these were luxuries, so their sample consisted mainly of middle and upper class citizens. These voted in majority for Landon, but the lower classes voted Roosevelt. Because their sample was biased towards wealthier citizens, their result was incorrect.
This kind of bias is usually regarded as a worse problem than statistical noise: Problems with statistical noise can be lessened by enlarging the sample, but a biased sample will not go away that easily. In particular, a meta-analysis will distill good data for studies that themselves suffer from statistical noise, but a meta-analysis of biased studies will be biased itself.
Another kind of bias in statistics does not involve biased samples, but does involve the use of a statistic whose average value differs from the value of the quantity being estimated. For example, suppose X1, ..., Xn are independent and identically distributed random variables, each with a normal distribution with expectation μ and variance σ2. Let
A far more extreme case of a biased estimator being better than any unbiased estimator is well-known: Suppose X has a Poisson distribution with expectation λ. It is desired to estimate
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Most often, bias simply refers to a fixed DC voltage applied to the same point in a circuit as an AC signal, frequently to select the desired operating response of a semiconductor (forward or reverse bias). For example, a bias voltage is applied to a transistor in an electronic amplifier to allow the transistor to operate in a particular region of its transconductance curve.Commune
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be the "sample average", and let
be a "sample variance". Then S2 is a "biased estimator" of σ2 because
However, this biased estimator is, by the commonly used criterion of "mean squared error", actually better (but only very slightly) than the unbiased estimator that results from putting n - 1 in the denominator where n appears above.
The only function of the data constituting an unbiased estimator is
If the observed value of X is 100, then the estimate is 1, although the true value of the quantity being estimated is obviously very likely to be near 0, which is the opposite extreme. And if X is observed to be 101, then the estimate is even more absurd: it is -1, although the quantity being estimated obviously must be positive. The (biased) maximum-likelihood estimator
is much better than this unbiased estimator.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bias."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BIAS | English | Belgian International Air Services | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BiasSynonyms: diagonal (n), preconception (n), prejudice (n), predetermine (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love). |
Adjective: affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered, tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias; Noun: tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with. | |
Error | Heresy; (heterodoxy); hallucination; (insanity); false light; (fallacy of vision); dream; (fancy); fable; (untruth); bias; (misjudgment); misleading; Verb: |
Imbecility Folly | One's weak side, not one's strong point; bias; infatuation; (insanity). |
Inequality | Noun: inequality; disparity, imparity; odds; difference; unevenness; inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make-weight; superiority; inferiority; inequation. |
Misjudgment | Prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate; dogmatize; have a bias; Noun: have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions; look only at one side of the shield; view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles; not see beyond one's nose; dare pondus fumo; get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder). |
Give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess. | |
Bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye. | |
Motive | Influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby. |
Obliquity | Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa. |
Tendency | Noun: tendency; aptness, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality). |
Wrong | Partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit, partisanship; bigotry. |
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S. G. Tallentyre | The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit. |
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Health | Bias toward the reporting of more favorable results is well recognized. (references) | |
Unfortunately, a strong bias exists against use of older donor tissue by many corneal surgeons and eye banks. (references) | ||
Therefore, a considerable amount of potentially usable donor tissue is either not being harvested or, if harvested, goes unused because of this bias. (references) | ||
Business | Ballooning shapes, layered skirts, knee-length hemlines, sarongs and wrap skirts, apron-style skirts, bias cut skirts, long drawstring skirts, post-war new look wide, fluid and airy skirts, long skirts with a detachable pocket strap. (references) | |
Because of this bias, and the time lag that implies setting up a partnership with a local firm, the US Commercial Service in Caracas expects that the market share of U.S. companies will increase perhaps between 1 and 2 percent in the next two years, which is half of the increase the total market for engineering services in Venezuela will probably experience. (references) | ||
Children | Guatemala | The father requested that the prosecutor be excused for bias. (references) |
Kiribati | There are no reports of gender bias in the provision of health services. (references) | |
Latvia | There is no governmental or societal bias against persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Turkey | However, news items may reflect a progovernment bias. (references) |
Mozambique | All evidenced consistent bias in favor of their shareholders. (references) | |
Hungary | Registration of associations is granted routinely and without bias. (references) | |
Economic History | China | Effective implementation of China's WTO commitments should affect this bias. (references) |
Guyana | The opposition political party accused the government of bias and heavy handedness. (references) | |
Georgia | The Soviet mentality had a strong bias towards the manufacturing industry, placing little value on services. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ukraine | Observers believed that this decision indicated a pro-presidential bias. (references) |
Togo | Agboyibo's lawyers had requested that the judge recuse himself or be replaced due to the possibility of political bias. (references) | |
Guatemala | The review revealed patterns of flagrant leniency and bias in scores of cases involving drug and other contraband traffickers. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Honduras | The courts commonly deny legal recourse to indigenous groups and often show bias in favor of nonindigenous parties of means and influence. (references) |
Philippines | Although no specific laws discriminate against indigenous people, the remoteness of the areas that many inhabit and cultural bias prevent their full integration into society. (references) | |
Indonesia | Papuans complain of racism, religious bias, paternalism, and condescension as constant impediments to better relations with non-Papuans, including members of the Government, the military, and the non-Papuan business community. (references) | |
Minorities | Cambodia | Ethnic bias did not appear to be a factor in the crime or the verdict. (references) |
Switzerland | Although authorities only recorded a few license plate numbers and did not disrupt the gathering, some accused the police of bias because of their conspicuous monitoring of the event. (references) | |
Political Economy | SPAIN | These policies have continued in the guise of the Stability Pact, which, if anything, has a bias toward even stricter fiscal policy than the preceding agreement. (references) |
Political Rights | Nigeria | In 2000 there were few military retirements, and although they appear to reflect an ethnic or religious bias, some in the north believe that the northern Hausa are underrepresented in the military. (references) |
Malawi | International election observers found the 1999 presidential and parliamentary elections to be free and substantially fair; however, the electoral process was flawed, as opposition access to the broadcast media was limited; there were voter registration problems in some areas of the country; and the Electoral Commission at times displayed bias in favor of the ruling party. (references) | |
Women | Kuwait | Foreign-born domestic employees have the right to sue their employers for abuse, but few do so fearing judicial bias and deportation. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nepal | Cultural attitudes toward returned victims of trafficking are often negative and the Government response sometimes reflects that bias. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | The companies employed methods ranging from public advertising of jobs and objective testing to screening of applicants by non-Equatoguineans only, in their attempt to eliminate the former political bias in the hiring process. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | We are all sensible of the bias to which the strongest minds and purest hearts are, under such circumstances, liable. |
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| "Bias" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.42% of the time. "Bias" is used about 1,393 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.42% | 1,357 | 5,865 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.3% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,393 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bias" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bias | Last name | 2,000 | 5,241 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bias": Bias (Epidemiology) ♦ bias against ♦ bias against smb. or smth. ♦ bias current ♦ bias smb. ♦ bias towards smb. or smth. ♦ cathode bias ♦ challenge a judge for bias ♦ cut on the bias ♦ cut smth. on the bias ♦ experimenter bias ♦ free from bias ♦ grid bias battery ♦ input bias current ♦ Insurance Selection Bias ♦ mark bias ♦ null bias ♦ on the bias ♦ ordering bias ♦ partisan bias ♦ procedural bias ♦ Publication Bias ♦ selection bias ♦ true bias ♦ without bias. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bias": bias-cut. | |
Ending with "bias": anti-bias, weight-bias. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bias | 141 | liberal bias | 9 |
len bias | 113 | bias elimination ethics | 9 |
media bias | 64 | bias education gender | 8 |
gender bias | 54 | survivorship bias | 8 |
bias peak | 30 | gender bias in the classroom | 8 |
bias tape | 26 | bias self serving | 7 |
anti bias curriculum | 22 | bias fox news | 7 |
bias individual perception | 21 | bbc bias liberal | 7 |
bias confirmation | 18 | bias studio | 7 |
bias education gender in | 16 | bias tire | 6 |
bias tee | 16 | bias cut | 6 |
bias ply tire | 14 | bias hindsight | 6 |
bias binding | 12 | bias deck | 6 |
bias in the media | 11 | bias jersey len | 6 |
liberal media bias | 11 | bias tape maker | 6 |
bias definition | 9 | bias research | 6 |
bbc bias | 9 | bias binding satin | 6 |
cultural bias | 9 | bernard goldberg bias | 5 |
test bias | 9 | bias king | 5 |
bias cut skirt | 9 | bias lenny | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bias"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vijë e pjerrët, tërthore (brace, crossbar, crosspiece, crossrail, stretcher, strut, tie beam, transom, transversal, yoke), pjerrje (bevel, careen, inclination, list, obliquity, tilt), paragjykim (preconception, prejudgement, prejudice, prepossession, superstition), ndikoj (affect, color, colour, influence, operate, prepossess, sway), anësi. (various references) | |
Arabic | محاباة (favor, favoritism, favour, favouritism, odds, one sidedness, partiality, prejudice), مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bevel, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), نزعة (bent, direction, disposition, genius, leaning, movement, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, strain, streak, temper, tendency, trend, wind), وجه في إتجاه معين, على نحو منحرف, خط درز, إنحياز (alignment, prejudice), أثر (count, echo, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, touch, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), смесване (commixture, confection, immixture, incorporation, interfusion, intermixture, mixing, mixture), отклонение (aberration, declination, deflection, deflexion, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, diversion, drift, excursion, inflection, inflexion, lapse, ramification, shunt, swerve, turnout, variation), наклон (batter, bevel, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, rake, ramp, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), предразсъдък (prejudice), предразполагам (dispose, incline, ingratiate, placate, predispose, prepossess), повлиявам (affect, be influenced, have an influence upon, predetermine, prejudice). (various references) | |
Chinese | 偏差 (deviation), 偏心 (Biased, Biases, Biasing). (various references) | |
Czech | tendence (disposition, movement, tendency, trend, undercurrent), sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, rake, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), předsudek (prejudice, preoccupation), náklonnost (affection, bent, Favor, favour, fondness, goodwill, inclination, partiality, penchant, proclivity, taste), šikmý proužek. (various references) | |
Danish | biassignal, bias (biasing, distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), tendens (disposal, inclination, tendency), systematisk fejl (distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), nulfejl, misvisning (convergence, distortion, magnetic declination, magnetic deviation, magnetic variation, non-sampling error, systematic error, variation), forspaending (biasing), formagnetiseringssignal, formagnetisering (biasing), afvigelse (aberrance, aberration). (various references) | |
Dutch | bias (biasing, distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), voormagnetisatie (biasing), vertekening (distortion, geometrical distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error, warp), systematische vertekening (distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), systematische fout bij steekproeven (distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), systematische fout (distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), oriëntatie (attitude, orientation, pose), nulpuntsverschuiving, instelpunt (biassing point, quiescent operating point, working point), instelling (adjustment, establishment, institution), gemiddelde afwijking, afwijkingsgrootte. (various references) | |
Farsi | تمایل بیک طرف , تحت تاثیرقراردادن , تعصب (Bigotry, Intolerance, Preconception, Prejudice, Prepossession, Zeal, Zealotry), تبعیض کردن (Prejudice), طرفداری (Adhesion, Devotion), بیک طرف متمایل کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | bias-suhde, vinous (distortion, obliqueness, obliquity), puolueellisuus (partiality, prejudice), nollavirhe, harha (delusion, hallucination), esivirta (bias current, biasing, input bias current, quiescent input current), esimagnetointi (biasing, pre-excitation), esijännite (biasing), ennakkoluuloinen (prejudiced), ennakkoluulo (prejudice). (various references) | |
French | biais (true bias), biais d'accéléromètre, gauchissement, distorsion, erreur de zéro, erreur systématique, faire orienter, alignement, gauchir, tendance, inclinaison, influencer, penchant, polarisation (biasing), préjugé, prémagnétisation, favoritisme. (various references) | |
German | Ausrichtung (alignment, justification, lining up, orientation), Vorspannung (biasing, coupling, inertial couple, initial torque), Verzerrung (contortion, distortion, misrepresentation, parody, perversion, pulling, straining). (various references) | |
Greek | προκατάληψη (jaundice, preconception, prejudgement, prejudice). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתח (fever, margin, strain, suspense, tension, tizzy), משוא פ ים (discrimination, favouritism, partiality, prejudice), משפט ק"ום (prejudice), מצ"" (follower, partial, partisan, supporter, taking side), ל"שפיע (carry weight, influence, motivate, predetermine, swing), אלכסון (diagonal line, hypotenuse, slant), ח" צ""יות (one sidedness, partiality, prejudice, unilaterality), "טי" (bending, declension, diversion, inclination, tilt), "ע" משוח"ת (prejudice), "ע" ק"ומ" (prejudice), סטי" (aberration, deflection, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion, perversion, swerve), שיאת פ ים (discrimination, favouritism, partiality). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rézsútosság (cant, skew, slant), határáram, hajlam (aptitude, bent, dispose, disposition, gift, hank, inclination, instinct, leaning, liability, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency), hátrányos megkülönböztetés, ferde (aslope, awry, beveled, biased, biassed, cant, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross, leaning, oblique, out of the straigh, perverse, sideling, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, splay), eltérít (angle, detour, distract, divert, hijack, to avert, to bias, to call off, to deflect, to distract, to divert, to head off, to hijack, to shunt, to sidetrack, to side-track, to turn from), eltérés egyenes vonaltól, elfogultság (lopsidedness, partiality, prejudice, prepossession, self-consciousness), elõfeszültség, elõítélettel viseltet, elõítélet (preconception, prejudice), előítélet (preconceived idea, preconception, prejudice, stereotype), egyoldalúság. (various references) | |
Indonesian | prasangka (hunch, preconception, prejudice), miring (askew, aslant, awry, cant, careen, crazy, oblique, slanting, sloping, wry). (various references) | |
Italian | scarto (board, difference, discard, margin, reject, rejection, run out, scrap, wastage, waste), relazione indiretta, prevenzione (harm, obviation, prejudice, prepossession, prevention, prophylaxis), pregiudizio (disadvantage, drawback, preconception, prejudice, prepossession), polarizzazione (polarisation, polarization), parzialit (Favor, favour, lopsidedness, partiality), influenzare (actuate, affect, condition, influence, prepossess, sway), inclinazione (addiction, aptitude, assessment, bend, bent, cant, dip, disposition, fancy, gradient, hang, inclination, lean, liking, penchant, pitch, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, stoop, taste, tendency, tilt, tip), fare inclinare, errore sistematico (distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), errore di uscita, distorsione (distortion, sprain, strain, twist), diagonale (diagonal), deviazione (aberration, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, diversion, offset, shunt, swerve). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 偏執 (eccentricity, obstinacy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がじょう (inner citadel, new year's card, personal feelings, picture album, selfishness, stronghold), バイアス , ひがめ (attacking with fire, misjudgment, misunderstanding, sight error, squint, torture by fire), ひがみ (inferiority complex, prejudice), かたむき (bent, disposition, inclination, list, slope, tendency, trend), よくめ (partiality), へ"しつ (degeneration, deterioration, eccentricity, obstinacy), へ"しゅう (compilation, eccentricity, editing, editorial, little boat, obstinacy, skiff), へき (break, burst, crime, false, inferiority complex, law, pierce, prejudice, punish, ruler, split, tear), え"ひいき (favoritism, partiality, prejudice), え" (favoritism, partiality, prejudice, unfairness). (various references) | |
Korean | 편견 (Biases, Prejudice). (various references) | |
Manx | lieh-vriwnys (unfair judgement), lhiasraght (inclination), cur lhiasraght er, cur er dy ve cleaynt, courchleayney moggyl, courchleayney (leaning), bai (bye, partiality, slope). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iasbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tendência (aptitude, bent, compliance, current, driving, leaning, liability, proclivity, propensity, stomach, tendency, tide, vocation). (various references) | |
Romanian | tendenţiozitate (tendentiousness), prejudecatã (prejudgement, prejudice), pãrtinire (favoring, favouring, partiality, prejudice), oblic (aslant, asquint, athwart, diagonal, inclined, oblique, obliquely, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, splay, squint, transverse), linie oblicã (oblique line), interferenţã, influenţa (affect, bring to bear, influence, lobby, predetermine, reach, sway, work), croi în diagonalã, înclinare (batter, bent, cant, cast, declension, dip, fancy, hang, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, lurch, obliquity, pitching, slope, tilt), înclina (be inclined, bend, bow, incline, incline to, lean against, prejudice, recline, shelve, slant, slope, splay, stoop, tilt, yield), în diagonalã. (various references) | |
Russian | уклон (deviation, dip, downgrade, draft, draught, fall, grade, gradient, incline, plane, ply, ramp, slant, slope, taper), склонять смещение, оказывать плохое влияние, наклон (bevel, cant, declination, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, lean, nutation, pitch, rake, slope, slopping, tilt), предубеждение (animus, ill feeling, prejudice), пристрастие (leaning, partiality, partisanship, predilection, relish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stvoriti predrasudu (prejudice), sklonost (affinity, bent, calling, fancy, fondness, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency), prednapon, padina (dip, downhill, hillside, scarp, sklent, slope), nagib (bank, bevel, camber, cant, descent, escarp, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, incline, lean, list, offset, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip, weathering), imati uticaj, dijagonala (diagonal). (various references) | |
Spanish | bias (biasing), bies (twist), parcialidad (clique, discrimination, faction, Favor, favour, partiality, party, prejudice), descentramiento, desvío (aberrance, aberration, alienation, deflection, detour, deviation, drift), desviación (aberrance, aberration, bypass, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, deviousness, diversion, sheer, swerve), error cero, al bies (angled, at an angle), influir (affect, carry weight, influence), voltaje de polarización, polarización (polarization), prejuicio (injury, preconception, prejudgement, prejudice, prepossession), premagnetización, propensión (disposition, inclination, leaning, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency, turn), sesgo (askance, askew, cant, lopsided, slant, slanting, sloping, turn, twist, warp, wry), tendencia (inclination, run, shade, tendency, tenor, trend), error sistemático. (various references) | |
Swedish | bakgrundsrelation, snedhet (skew, skewness), sned sida, polarisering (polarization), partiskhet (partiality), påverkan (impact, impingement, influence), påverka (act, affect, impinge, influence, will), missvisning (deviation), helsnedd, göra partisk, förspänning (biasing, tempering, toughening), förmagnetisering (biasing, pre-excitation), fördom (preconcert, prejudice). (various references) | |
Thai | เส้นเอียง, ทำให้มีความลำเอียง, ที่มีลักษ"ะเอียง, อคติ. (various references) | |
Turkish | kıvrımlı yol, çapraz olarak, ön yargı, önyargı (forejudge, jaundice, preconceived opinion, preconception, prejudgement, prejudice, prepossession), önyargılı davranmasına neden olmak, aklını çelmek (allure, beguile, cozen, dissuade, draw in, entice away, infatuate, persuade, prepossess, suborn, sway), aleyhte etkilemek, çapraz (across, cornerwise, crisscross, cross, crossways, crosswise, decussate, diagonal, groined, lattice, slantways, slantwise, thwart, transversal, transverse, traverse), etki altında bırakmak (prejudice), yanılma (goof, lapse, misapprehension, slip up), meyil (affection, aptitude, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, liking, obliquity, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), meyilli (aslant, aslope, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, prone, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping, subject to, tilting), meyilli olarak (aslant, aslope, slantways, slantwise), peşin hüküm (parti pris, preconceived opinion, preconception, prejudgement, prejudice), sapma (declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp), verev (on the cross, slanting, slantwise), verev olarak, eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схиляти (dispose, invite, predispose), ухил (gradient), настроювати (adjust, attune, control, harmonize, string, syntonize, tone, tune), зміщення (displacement, offset), пристрасть (appetence, appetite, ardency, ardour, care, desire, flame, fondness, leaning, lust, partiality, passion, predilection, propensity, rage, weakness, yen), прихильність (acceptance, adherence, affectation, affection, benevolence, committal, devotion, endearment, favour, good-liking, goodwill, grace, kindness, liking, sympathy), похилість (declivity, squint). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xiên (askew, asquint, oblique, slanting, slantways, slantwise), sự thiên về (proclivity), nghiêng chéo theo đường chéo, dốc (declivity, gradient, ramp, slope, slopewise, sloping, steep, uphill, versant), độ xiên. (various references) | |
Welsh | tuedd (bent, inclination, tendency), rhagfarn (prejudice), gogwydd (bent, inclination, slant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | biasis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bias": biased, biasedly, biases, biasing, biasness, biasnesses, biassed, biasses, biassing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bias": acrophobias, agoraphobias, ailurophobias, antibias, claustrophobias, cobias, computerphobias, euphorbias, exurbias, galabias, gambias, homophobias, hydrophobias, misbias, negrophobias, nubias, obias, phobias, photophobias, suburbias, technophobias, terbias, tibias, triskaidekaphobias, urbias, xenophobias, ytterbias. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bias": amebiases, amebiasis, amoebiases, amoebiasis, enterobiases, enterobiasis, misbiased, misbiases, misbiasing, misbiassed, misbiasses, misbiassing, unbiased, unbiasedness, unbiasednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Bias" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baaa, baass, baaz, badass, baia, Baic, Baies, baii, baij, Baikas, baio, baiq, bais, Baixa, basa, Bcas, beas, bease, beaz, beisa, besa, Bgas, bia, biaa, Biac, biae, biais, bial, bian, bians, biar, biars, Biasco, biase, Biasi, Biasia, biast, biaz, biba, bidaz, Bifa, Bigah, bigas, bigs, biha, Biiab, Bikash, bimah, bimas, bims, Binab, bioa, bioq, biosp, Bipasha, bis, bisazir, Biss, bitas, biui, Bixa, blas, Bnass, Bpas, brisa, bukas, byass, byast, gias, ibam, Ibsa, isa, jias, obias, Xbai, zias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bias" (pronounced bī"us) |
| 3 | -ī" u s | pious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: isba. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-s" | |
-1 letter: abs, ais, bas, bis, sab, sib. | |
-2 letters: ab, ai, as, ba, bi, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-s" | |
+1 letter: abris, bails, baits, basic, basil, basin, basis, bassi, bimas, iambs, isbas, nabis, obias, sabin, sabir, sahib. | |
+2 letters: abasia, abatis, abides, ablins, abseil, airbus, alibis, ambits, babies, bairns, baizas, baizes, banish, basics, basify, basils, basing, basins, basion, batiks, bialis, bialys, biased, biases, bimahs, biogas, biotas, blains, bonsai, braids, brails, brains, braise, brasil, briars, cabins, ceibas, cobias, disbar, gabies, habits, iambus, isobar, kiblas, libras, limbas, mbiras, nubias, pibals, rabbis, rabies, sabine, sabins, sabirs, sahibs, shibah, tabbis, tibias, urbias, wasabi. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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