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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : bahy-uhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbaɪ əs



Definition of bias

Origin :
  • 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.
  • For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride, lest his mind should seem to be occupied with things mean and transitory; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections colour and infect the understanding. [Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum," 1620]
  • noun belief in one way; partiality
  • noun diagonal weave of fabric
  • verb cause to favor
Example sentences :
  • This bias springs from causes which are stable and deep-rooted.
  • Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
  • My son believed that this bias for Classics was bad educationally.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • But then I can afford a bias; am only making observations from "a Terrace in Prague."
  • Extract from : « From a Terrace in Prague » by Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
  • The bias of the age is as natural and as dangerous an element in criticism as the bias of the individual.
  • Extract from : « John Lyly » by John Dover Wilson
  • It would be just as ridiculous on your part to affect a bias which was not natural to you.
  • Extract from : « Wood-Carving » by George Jack
  • The bias of loyalty is not a matter on which argument is tolerated.
  • Extract from : « An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation » by Thorstein Veblen
  • Most people have a bias in favor of their own chosen field of interest.
  • Extract from : « The Nation's River » by United States Department of the Interior
  • The bias strip should be basted on and sewn with a running-stitch.
  • Extract from : « Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools » by Ministry of Education Ontario
  • Bias band—applying to top of ruffle in petticoats and drawers.
  • Extract from : « The Making of a Trade School » by Mary Schenck Woolman
  • No statement of this kind is unbiased, for the pacifist has his own bias.
  • Extract from : « The Better Germany in War Time » by Harold Picton

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