All 3 Uses
bias
in
This Side of Paradise
(Auto-generated)
- He had all the Henty biasses in history, and was particularly fond of the cheerful murder stories of Mary Roberts Rinehart.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot—he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common—but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.†
Chpt 1.1
- It's biassed.†
Chpt 1.4
Definitions:
-
(1)
(bias) a tendency to favor one side -- in people, a prejudice that affects fair judgment; more generally, any built-in lean to move or behave in a particular way (like a car that pulls right)
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Specialized meanings of bias include:
- statistics: any of several errors that distort results
- textiles: a line or fold that is diagonal relative to the sides or grain of the fabric
- electronics: a steady-state current that is forced through an electronic device