| Noun | 1. | bias - a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situationtaboo, tabu - a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature experimenter bias - (psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment homophobia - prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality Islamophobia - prejudice against Muslims; "Muslim intellectuals are afraid of growing Islamophobia in the West" racism - the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races | |
| 2. | bias - a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabricstraight line - a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line" | |
| Verb | 1. | bias - influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"handicap - attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant | |
| 2. | bias - cause to be biasedslant, weight, angle - present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders" | |
| Adj. | 1. | bias - slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; "a bias fold"oblique - slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" | |