bias

bias has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
• n.. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
• n.. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
• a.. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
• a.. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
• adv.. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
• v. t.. To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
• n.. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
• n.. a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
• v.. cause to be biased
• v.. influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"