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• bias towards — leaning towards, prejudice towards …   English contemporary dictionary

• Bias (disambiguation) — Bias is an inclination towards something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, or predilection. Bias may also refer to:In science and statistics: * Bias (statistics), the systematic distortion of a statistic ** A biased sample… …   Wikipedia

• bias — bi‧as [ˈbaɪəs] noun biases PLURALFORM [countable, uncountable] MARKETING in market research, errors in results, usually caused by working with a group of people who are not typical of the group you want to know about, or by asking confusing… …   Financial and business terms

• bias — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ clear, definite, marked, obvious, significant, strong ▪ blatant ▪ slight …   Collocations dictionary

• bias — 01. The ref is obviously [biased] against us; his brother is on the other team. 02. During your speaking test you will be evaluated by a teacher other than your own. This is to make sure that the tester has no [bias] either for or against you. 03 …   Grammatical examples in English

• bias — I UK [ˈbaɪəs] / US noun ** 1) a) [singular/uncountable] an attitude that you have that makes you treat someone in a way that is unfair or different from the way you treat other people Ideally we d choose judges who are without political bias.… …   English dictionary

• bias — n. prejudice 1) to demonstrate, display, exhibit, show bias 2) to root out bias 3) deep rooted, strong bias 4) a bias against; for; towards diagonal line 5) on the bias (to cut on the bias) * * * [ baɪəs] display exhibit …   Combinatory dictionary

• bias — [[t]ba͟ɪ͟əs[/t]] biases, biasing, biased 1) N VAR: usu with supp Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing. Bias against women permeates every level of the judicial system... There were fierce …   English dictionary

• bias — [ˈbaɪəs] noun [singular/U] 1) an attitude that makes you treat someone in a way that is unfair or different from the way you treat other people Ideally we d choose judges who are without political bias.[/ex] 2) emphasis on one thing more than… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• bias — bi|as1 [ˈbaıəs] n [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: biais, from Old Provençal] 1.) [singular, U] an opinion about whether a person, group, or idea is good or bad which influences how you deal with it political/gender/racial etc bias ▪ a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• bias — 1 noun 1 (uncountable singular) a tendency to consider one person, group, idea etc more favourably than others: a newspaper with a strong right wing bias (+ against/towards/in favour of): There was a definite bias against commerce and science in… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English