bias
bias is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, adjective, adverb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
- noun. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- noun. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
- adjective. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
- adjective. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
- adverb. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
- transitive verb. To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
- noun. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
- noun. a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- verb. cause to be biased
- verb. influence in an unfair way
"you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"
- adjective. slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric
"a bias fold"
Synonyms
preconception, prejudice, diagonal, predetermine
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bias:
Common word forms
biased, biases, biasing, biasness
Words from these letters
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