Definitions for biased

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biased bi·ased

Spelling: [bahy-uh st]

IPA: /ˈbaɪ əst/

Biased is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in biased (abdeis).

Definitions for biased

noun

1. a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned:
2. unreasonably hostile feelings or opinions about a social group; prejudice:
3. an oblique or diagonal line of direction, especially across a woven fabric.
4. Statistics. a systematic as opposed to a random distortion of a statistic as a result of sampling procedure.
5. Lawn Bowling. a slight bulge or greater weight on one side of the ball or bowl. the curved course made by such a ball when rolled.
6. Electronics. the application of a steady voltage or current to an active device, as a diode or transistor, to produce a desired mode of operation.
7. a high-frequency alternating current applied to the recording head of a tape recorder during recording in order to reduce distortion.

Idioms

1. on the bias, in the diagonal direction of the cloth. out of line; slanting.

adverb

1. in a diagonal manner; obliquely; slantingly:

adjective

1. having or showing bias or prejudice:
2. cut, set, folded, etc., diagonally:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to hold or exhibit a particular bias; to influence, especially unfairly:
2. Electronics. to apply a steady voltage or current to (the input of an active device).

Origin of biased

First recorded in 1605-15; bias + -ed²

Examples for biased

If the doctor is biased, he may still classify it as a disorder that can lead to legal repercussions.

Both borders are patrolled by UN peacekeepers, missions that all parties disparage as weak and biased.

On literary subjects they are often full of over-statement and of biased judgment.

The First Amendment is also biased against religion in an unexpected way.

Do not judge hastily or allow yourself to be biased by the opinions of others.

The Constitution is “biased” in two distinctive, important ways.

The opinions of the biased historians in this field will be interesting.

In doing so, Gretchen Hamel, a spokesperson for the Ernst campaign, said that the paper was biased.

The method is not new, for you may say that all historians are biased.

They were biased, unreliable at best, as regards culinary matters.