{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "baɪəs" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bias.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bias.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "c. 1520 in the sense \"oblique line\". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570).\nFrom French biais, adverbially (\"sideways, askance, against the grain\") c. 1250, as a noun (\"oblique angle, slant\") from the late 16th century.\nThe French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from an unattested Latin *biaxius \"with two axes\"." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.\nSynonyms: predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection\n1689 (indicated as 1690), , chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC, book I, page 12:Morality give a bias to all their actions.\n1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.\nnature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much\n2020 December 3, Cade Metz; Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Researchers worry that the people who are building artificial intelligence systems may be building their own biases into the technology.\n2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49:Reshaping was far from perfect. It was tainted by statistical overreach, the unconscious biases of its author, and by the political demands being placed upon the BRB by government." }, { "mean": "(countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric." }, { "mean": "(countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference." }, { "mean": "(electronics) 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." }, { "mean": "(statistics) 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." }, { "mean": "(sports) 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.\n1822, , Peveril of the Peak. , volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:there is a concealed bias within the spheroid" }, { "mean": "(South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.\n2015, \"Top 10 Tips For Travelling To Korea\", UKP Magazine, Winter 2015, page 37:\nThe last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.\n2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page:\nSweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.\n2019, Joelle Weatherford, \"Can't stop the K-Pop train\", The Eagle (Northeast Texas Community College), 7 May 2019, page 8:\nOne in particular, Minho, really caught my eye. He became what is called my bias or favorite member.\nFor more quotations using this term, see Citations:bias." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.\nOur prejudices bias our views.\n1963 June, “News and Comment: Le Plan Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 364:No doubt they overlook the L.M.R.'s allegedly faulty financial estimates for the Euston-Liverpool/Manchester scheme, which have biassed the Treasury, and perhaps the open-minded Dr. Beeching, against electrification without renewed examination of projects." }, { "mean": "(electronics) To give a bias to.\n2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87.\nOn the ohmic side n+ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.\nSynonym: biased\nc. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thou, trumpet, there’s my purſe; / Now cracke thy lungs, and ſplit thy braſen pipe: / Blow, villaine, till thy ſphered Bias cheeke / Out-ſwell the collicke of puft Aquilon: / Come, ſtretch thy cheſt, and let thy eyes ſpout bloud: / Thou bloweſt for Hector." }, { "mean": "Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.\nto cut cloth bias" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "bias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }