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bias 音標拼音: [b'ɑɪəs] n. 偏見,斜線
a.
ad. 斜(的)
vt. 使有偏見 偏見,斜線斜(的)使有偏見 bias偏差; 偏移; 偏壓
bias無偏壓 NB
bias歸偏
bias偏移測試 bias偏移 偏差 偏壓 bias adj 1: slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; " a bias fold" n 1: a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation [ synonym: { bias}, { prejudice}, { preconception}] 2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric [ synonym: { diagonal}, { bias}] v 1: influence in an unfair way; " you are biasing my choice by telling me yours" 2: cause to be biased [ synonym: { bias}, { predetermine}] Bias \ Bi" as\, a. 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. [ 1913 Webster]
Bias \ Bi" as\, adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias. [ 1913 Webster]
Bias \ Bi" as\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Biased} ( b[ imac]" ast); p. pr. & vb. n. { Biasing}.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. [ 1913 Webster] Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster]
Bias \ Bi" as\ ( b[ imac]" as), n.; pl. { Biases} (-[ e^] z). [ F. biasis, perh. fr. LL. bifax two- faced; L. bis facies face. See { Bi-}, and cf. { Face}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination. [ 1913 Webster] Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] Morality influences men' s lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A wedge- shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment ( as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Prepossession; prejudice; partiality; inclination. See { Bent}. [ 1913 Webster] 284 Moby Thesaurus words for " bias": a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, across, affect, affinity, angle, angle off, animus, aptitude, aptness, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bag, bear off, bend, bend to, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, biased, biaswise, branching off, canting, careening, cast, catercorner, catercornered, catercornerways, character, chosen kind, circuitousness, color, conatus, conduce, conduciveness, constitution, contribute, corner, cornerways, cornerwise, crook, crossways, crosswise, cup of tea, curve, declination, deflect, delight, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diagonal, diagonally, diagonalwise, diathesis, diffract, diffuse, digression, discrimination, discursion, disperse, dispose, disposition, distort, divagate, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fancy, fascination, favor, favoritism, feeling for, forejudgment, garble, go, grain, hairpin, have a tendency, head, idiosyncrasy, impulse, inclination, inclinational, inclinatory, incline, inclined, inclining, indirection, individualism, induce, inequality, influence, interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, kidney, kittycorner, lead, lean, leaning, liability, liking, listing, look to, lurch, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind- set, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misrender, misrepresent, misuse, mold, move, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, nepotism, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, obliquity, on the bias, one- sidedness, out of plumb, out of square, parti pris, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanism, partisanship, penchant, pererration, personal choice, persuade, pervert, pitched, point, point to, preconception, predilection, predispose, predisposition, preference, preferential treatment, prejudgment, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, prepossession, probability, proclivity, prompt, proneness, propensity, pull, raking, rambling, readiness, recumbent, redound to, refract, rhomboid, scatter, scratch comma, sensitivity to, separatrix, serve, set, set toward, sheer, shelving, shelvy, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, show a tendency, sideling, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, slash, sloped, sloping, slue, soft spot, soften up, solidus, stamp, standpoint, strain, straying, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, sympathy, tack, taint, taste, temper, temperament, tend, tendency, thing, thwart, tilted, tilting, tinge, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tone, torture, transverse, trend, tropism, turn, turn of mind, turning, twist, type, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, variation, varnish, veer, verge, viewpoint, virgule, wandering, warp, weakness, wear down, weigh with, weight, willingness, work, work toward, yaw, zigzagBIAS. A particular influential power which sways the judgment; the inclination or propensity of the mind towards a particular object. 2. Justice requires that the judge should have no bias for or against any individual; and that his mind should be perfectly free to act as the law requires. 3. There is, however, one kind of bias which the courts suffer to influence them in their judgments it is a bias favorable to a class of cases, or persons, as distinguished from an individual case or person. A few examples will explain this. A bias is felt on account of convenience. 1 Ves. sen. 13, 14; 3 Atk. 524. It is also felt in favor of the heir at law, as when there is an heir on one side and a mere volunteer on the other. Willes, R. 570 1 W. Bl. 256; Amb. R. 645; 1 Ball & B. 309 1 Wils. R. 310 3 Atk. 747 Id. 222. On the other hand, the court leans against double portions for children; M' Clell. R. 356; 13 Price, R. 599 against double provisions, and double satisfactions; 3 Atk. R. 421 and against forfeitures. 3 T. R. 172. Vide, generally, 1 Burr. 419 1 Bos. & Pull. 614; 3 Bos. & Pull. 456 Ves. jr. 648 Jacob, Rep. 115; 1 Turn. & R. 350.
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