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  {
    "word": "bias",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8ba\u026a\u0259s/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8ba\u026a\u0259s/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8ba\u026a\u0259s/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/bias-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1769613",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To place bias upon; to influence.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Our prejudices bias our views."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "biased"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to cut cloth bias"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
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    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bias"
    ]
  }
]