bias

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbaɪəs/
• SAMPA: /"baI@s/

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Noun

Singular bias

Plural biases or biasses

1. (countable & uncountable) A bias is a preference in one direction that makes things unequal. <> son rai, son zuciya.

   There is strong evidence of a bias towards the death penalty for black rather than white murderers.

   They had plans for an international centre, with a strong political bias.

2. (countable) The bias is the diagonal direction, especially in cloth.

   The neckline was cut on the bias to improve the drape of the fabric.

Synonyms

• prejudice
• diagonal

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) bias

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) biases

Past tense (ya wuce) biased

Past participle (ya wuce) biased

Present participle (ana cikin yi) biasing

also

Plain form (yanzu) bias

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) biasses

Past tense (ya wuce) biassed

Past participle (ya wuce) biassed

Present participle (ana cikin yi) biassing

1. (transitive) If you bias something, you unfairly make one result more likely than another.

   Sexism in language biases experience constantly towards the male sex.

   By not providing this information, you bias the results.

Synonyms

• prejudice

Related words

• biased