1. • noun - a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
   • noun - a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
   • verb - influence in an unfair way
   • verb - cause to be biased
   • adj - slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric
2. • A line going diagonally across the grain of fabric: Cut the cloth on the bias.
   • Usage Problem.
   • A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.
   • An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice.
   • A statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others.
   • Sports.
   • A weight or irregularity in a ball that causes it to swerve, as in lawn bowling.
   • The tendency of such a ball to swerve.
   • Slanting or diagonal; oblique: a bias fold.
   • To influence in a particular, typically unfair direction; prejudice.
   • The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to influence unfavorably or detrimentally”: past experiences that have biased his outlook; behavior that has colored my opinion of her; a view of campaign promises that have become jaundiced; lying that has prejudiced the public against the administration; bitterness that has warped your judgment.

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