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Definition: BIASES |
BIASESPlural1. Of Bias |
Date "BIASES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
Crosswords: BIASES |
| Specialty definitions using "BIASES": ATTITUDE SENSOR DATA. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Furthermore, the potential biases in the RCTs would act to underestimate this benefit. (references) | |
Others argued that no symptoms have been shown to be specific for the chronic fatigue syndrome and that some studies suggest that a requirement for multiple symptoms biases the selection of cases toward those with psychiatric disorders. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | These stations have some editorial biases, but BK is considered to be a respected news source. (references) |
Yugoslavia | During the year, the station's coverage generally was objective, with some biases in favor of certain political parties. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | Bonds to release assets frozen incident to litigation are unavailable, and judges sometimes inflict their biases against commercial litigants through the application of "public order" policy concepts. (references) |
Indigenous People | Bolivia | Lack of education, inefficient farming and mining methods, indigenous cultural practices, and societal biases keep the indigenous people poor. (references) |
Political Economy | REPUBLIC OF KOREA | The government rejected explicit policies that encouraged anti-import sentiment among Korean consumers, and its efforts to address residual anti-import biases among Korean consumers, media and bureaucrats have started to have some meaningful impact. (references) |
Women | Tanzania | Police often have biases against pursuing domestic abuse cases and have demanded bribes to investigate allegations. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The biases which may operate upon him will not be so likely to extend to the representatives of the people in that body. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "BIASES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.92% of the time. "BIASES" is used about 113 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 (plural) | 92.92% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.08% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 113 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BIASES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 偏心 (Bias, Biased, Biasing). (various references) | ||||
German | Neigungen (aptitudes, aptnesses, declinations, inclinations, likings, proclivities, pronenesses, propensities, tendencies, veins). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 편견 (Bias, Prejudice). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | iasesbay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BIASES": amebiases, amoebiases, enterobiases, misbiases. (additional references) | |
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"BIASES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baass, bagasse, bagasses, baise, baissez, bease, beassst, bejaisus, Bejasis, bejasus, belasis, biace, biase, biasers, Biasi, Biasia, biasses, biave, Bijser, Biospec, birses, bisazir, bises, bisses, buase, byass, iasis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BIASES" (pronounced bī"usuz) |
| 4 | -u s u z | accomplices, actresses, addresses, aliases, amaryllises, apparatuses, apprentices, bonuses, businesses, buttresses, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, caucuses, censuses, choruses, circuses, congresses, crevices, crocuses, embarrasses, encompasses, eyewitnesses, fetuses, focuses, fortresses, furnaces, geniuses, goddesses, grimaces, harnesses, hippopotamuses, hospices, hostesses, illnesses, injustices, irises, justices, likenesses, mattresses, minuses, mistresses, necklaces, notices, novices, offices, omnibuses, orifices, palaces, penises, porpoises, poultices, prejudices, premises, promises, prospectuses, purchases, purposes, refocuses, repurchases, retroviruses, seamstresses, services, sinuses, stewardesses, surfaces, surpluses, terraces, tortoises, treatises, viruses, waitresses, walruses, weaknesses, witnesses. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, aces, acquaintances, advances, affixes, albatrosses, allegiances, alliances, allowances, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, appearances, appendixes, appliances, asses, assesses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, axes, balances, bases, basses, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, Busses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, Casas, cases, cayuses, ceases, chances, chases, choices, circumstances, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embraces, eminences, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fences, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, forces, foxes, fragrances, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, headdresses, hindrances, hisses, hoaxes, horses, houses, hyraxes, ices, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, medusas, messes, minibuses, misses, missus, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, nieces, nixes, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, ordinances, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, paradoxes, passes, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, possesses, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, pronounces, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, senses, sentences, sequences, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surpasses, surtaxes, taxes, tolerances, tosses, townhouses, traces, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, voices, waltzes, waxes, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-s-s" | |
-1 letter: bases, basis, bassi, bises, isbas, sabes. | |
-2 letters: base, bass, bias, bise, isba, sabe, sabs, seas, seis, sibs. | |
-3 letters: abs, ais, ass, bas, bis, ess, sab, sae, sea, sei, sib, sis. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, ai, as, ba, be, bi, es, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-s-s" | |
+1 letter: abioses, abscise, abseils, biassed, biasses, braises, brassie, sabines, scabies, sebasic. | |
+2 letters: abatises, abscised, abscises, airbuses, asbestic, ascribes, astilbes, babesias, banishes, banshies, baptises, basenjis, basifies, basinets, bassinet, bastiles, batistes, beasties, biasness, biogases, blasties, brasiers, brassier, brassies, diabases, disables, disabuse, iambuses, isobares, issuable, kissable, lesbians, missable, passible, seabirds, seisable, sidebars, stabiles, subideas, swabbies, tabbises. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 41 53 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. .- ... . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01000001 01010011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I A S E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0041 0053 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364335533953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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