biasedadj.

Brit.

/ˈbʌɪəst/, U.S.

/ˈbaɪəst/

Forms: 1500s–1600s biast, 1600s–1700s byassed, 1600s–1700s byased, 1600s byast, 1600s byazed, 1600s– biased, 1600s– biassed.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bias n., -ed suffix²; bias v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < bias n. + -ed suffix²; in sense 3 perhaps also partly < bias v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier bias adj.

a. Of a textile: woven with a pattern of diagonal lines or ridges; twilled. Now rare.

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1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 49 An azur'd cloth of state, which ouerthwart Was biast (as it were) and richly purld, With twelue braue signes & glistring stars inurld.

?1700 (title) Reasons humbly offered, why the importation of foreign-wrought figured, flowered, biassed, stitched and stripe silks and drugets..and other stuffs made of wool, should be prohibited.

1824 J. Murphy Treat. Art of Weaving 23 In the biassed tweels, the small stripes of flushing, formed by the intervals at which the warp and woof are interwoven, run obliquely across the cloth.

1983 K. P. Kent Prehistoric Textiles of Southwest 156/2 If the shift remains constant for each weft, the cloth may be called a plain, diagonal..simple or biased twill.

b. Diagonal, slanting; (with reference to woven fabric) cut diagonally or at an angle to the warp or weft; oriented according to the bias (bias n. 1a); made with fabric cut or oriented in this way.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > woven > other

plain1415

biased1805

Jacquard1841

looped1851

fairy1883

tangential1897

interlock1928

rip-stop1945

1805 Courier 19 Jan. Crape petticoat, with biassed stripes.

1898 Myra's Jrnl. May 44/2 Cut in five breadths, taking care that the straight of the sateen comes at the back, to support the cloth seam (slightly biased).

1974 Ebony Apr. 115/1 Dress has a draped neckline, small cap sleeves, biased skirt with a beautiful flower-accented contrasting cummerbund.

2006 R. Matthews Hookorama 26 Work Tunisian crochet loosely as it has a tendency to produce a biased fabric with wavy edges.

2. Bowls. That has a bias (bias n. 2a(b)); (of a bowl) shaped or weighted so as to take a curving path when rolled. Later also in biased bowls n. the game of bowls, played using bowls with a bias (cf. bias bowls n.).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [adjective] > having bias

biased1600

1600 R. Armin Quips vpon Questions sig. E4 Thou dost rubbe like a false byast Bowle.

1877 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Poems 15 The bias'd bowl roll'd circling to the jack.

1937 Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 1 Mar. 4/6 In the biassed bowls final St Vigeans scored five to draw level with Monikie.

1997 Brainwaves Catal. (Innovations Plc) Christmas 31/2 Mini Carpet Bowls includes 8 biased bowls, a jack and full instructions.

2015 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 1 Feb. (Sport section) Because of the uneven weighting, the bowl will move in a curved motion towards the biased side, or the larger and heavier side.

a. Having a tendency, inclination, or leaning towards something; inclined or disposed to act, think, or behave in a particular way.Frequently with preceding nouns and adverbs.

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1631 E. Cooke Bartas Junior 39 Sometimes the billowes of ambitious tide, Doth whirle him forward with full saile to pride: Anon the Blast of Pleasure sets him on To a bad bias'd conversation.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 3 When to Sin our byast Nature leans.

1808 Times 13 Sept. What well-biassed mind does not turn with horror from the innate treachery, the sanguinary ambition, the remorseless cruelty.

1962 Sunday Times 17 June 19/4 (advt.) Should a new products manager be technically biased or be marketing biased?

2001 Independent (Nexis) 28 June 5 [The course] attracts more mathematicians and scientists than arts-biased students.

b. Influenced by preconceived opinion, favouritism, or prejudice; demonstrating, reflecting, or characterized by lack of impartiality.Now the usual sense.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [adjective]

prejudicial1535

forestalled1543

forejudging1571

unindifferent1571

apassioned1574

prejudicate1579

prejudiced1579

preoccupate1587

preoccupiedc1598

prejudicious1599

prepossessed1611

prejudicated1633

biased1642

prejudiciary1642

prejudicant1645

prejudicatory1652

parti pris1923

value-laden1936

slanted1959

society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adjective] > partial or biased

partial1425

affectionate1530

affectionated1535

affectioneda1578

biased1642

one-sided1834

partialistic1896

1642 T. Fulwar Serm. at Grayes-Inne 24 They were byast, partiall, and sinisterly affected people.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II lxxv, in Poems (1878) III. 155 How byassed all humane Actions are!

1793 C. Pigott Persecution Pref. p. v I deem it more wise and safe to remain as I am..than submit to the least possible chance of falling under the fangs of a biassed Judge, and a packed Jury.

1838 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 9 Oct. Whilst he would concede that the motives of the commissioners must be pure..they drew their information from biased and partial sources.

1899 Literary Digest 23 Dec. 784/2 These letters..are letters of complaint, and from them we learn that this journal is both..biased in favor of the Republican party and biased against it.

1952 N. Y. Herald Tribune (Paris) (European ed.) 11 July 2/1 I'm biased, of course, because I'm her father.

1994 United Church Observer Oct. 50/2 There are not many resources out there for single people. Society is biased toward coupledom.

2013 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) May 64/3 We always think we're the ones who are clear-sighted, and everyone else is biased and prejudiced.

4. Mechanics and Electronics. Of components and devices: given or possessing a bias (bias n. 5b, 7).reverse-biased: see the first element.

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1875 E. W. Siemens & C. W. Frischen U.S. Patent 161,561 1/2 The signaling-instrument consists of one rotating magneto-inductor, or producer of electrical currents, and a pair of biased segments or arms and bells.

1904 Sci. Abstr. B. 7 535 The two 24-volt batteries are now in series, and a strong current sent through the ‘biassed’ relay at the provincial exchange.

c1974 J. L. S. Maclay & B. L. Chalmers-Hunt Triumph 2000 & 2.5 PI 1963–74: Owner's Workshop Man. iii. 74/1 Fixed non-adjustable jet assembly and biased needle to give constant air to fuel ratio.

2012 D. Hunter Amped 150/1 In good condition, with a correctly biased quartet of NOS Mullard EL34s, a Custom 50 will easily put out well over 100 watts at full throttle.

5. Statistics. Of a statistical result: subject to a systematic distortion arising from the method of sampling, measurement, analysis, etc. Also of a method of sampling, measurement, analysis, etc.: introducing bias (bias n. 6).

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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > yielding distorted results

biased1897

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [adjective] > in statistics

biased1897

1897 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 60 859 In a practical calculation, estimated corrections should be applied for biassed errors.

1911 G. U. Yule Introd. Theory Statistics xiv. 276 Any sample, taken in the way supposed, is likely to be definitely biassed, in the sense that it will not tend to include, even in the long run, equal proportions of the A's and α's in the original material.

1952 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 21 157 It is a fairly heavily biased estimator and tends to underestimate the true value.

2007 K. Hansen Bobcat vi. 141 He warned that varying sex ratios can be the result of biased measuring techniques.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	biased
释义	biasedadj. Brit. /ˈbʌɪəst/, U.S. /ˈbaɪəst/ Forms: 1500s–1600s biast, 1600s–1700s byassed, 1600s–1700s byased, 1600s byast, 1600s byazed, 1600s– biased, 1600s– biassed. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bias n., -ed suffix²; bias v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < bias n. + -ed suffix²; in sense 3 perhaps also partly < bias v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier bias adj. 1. a. Of a textile: woven with a pattern of diagonal lines or ridges; twilled. Now rare. ΚΠ 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 49 An azur'd cloth of state, which ouerthwart Was biast (as it were) and richly purld, With twelue braue signes & glistring stars inurld. ?1700 (title) Reasons humbly offered, why the importation of foreign-wrought figured, flowered, biassed, stitched and stripe silks and drugets..and other stuffs made of wool, should be prohibited. 1824 J. Murphy Treat. Art of Weaving 23 In the biassed tweels, the small stripes of flushing, formed by the intervals at which the warp and woof are interwoven, run obliquely across the cloth. 1983 K. P. Kent Prehistoric Textiles of Southwest 156/2 If the shift remains constant for each weft, the cloth may be called a plain, diagonal..simple or biased twill. b. Diagonal, slanting; (with reference to woven fabric) cut diagonally or at an angle to the warp or weft; oriented according to the bias (bias n. 1a); made with fabric cut or oriented in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > woven > other plain1415 biased1805 Jacquard1841 looped1851 fairy1883 tangential1897 interlock1928 rip-stop1945 1805 Courier 19 Jan. Crape petticoat, with biassed stripes. 1898 Myra's Jrnl. May 44/2 Cut in five breadths, taking care that the straight of the sateen comes at the back, to support the cloth seam (slightly biased). 1974 Ebony Apr. 115/1 Dress has a draped neckline, small cap sleeves, biased skirt with a beautiful flower-accented contrasting cummerbund. 2006 R. Matthews Hookorama 26 Work Tunisian crochet loosely as it has a tendency to produce a biased fabric with wavy edges. 2. Bowls. That has a bias (bias n. 2a(b)); (of a bowl) shaped or weighted so as to take a curving path when rolled. Later also in biased bowls n. the game of bowls, played using bowls with a bias (cf. bias bowls n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [adjective] > having bias biased1600 1600 R. Armin Quips vpon Questions sig. E4 Thou dost rubbe like a false byast Bowle. 1877 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Poems 15 The bias'd bowl roll'd circling to the jack. 1937 Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 1 Mar. 4/6 In the biassed bowls final St Vigeans scored five to draw level with Monikie. 1997 Brainwaves Catal. (Innovations Plc) Christmas 31/2 Mini Carpet Bowls includes 8 biased bowls, a jack and full instructions. 2015 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 1 Feb. (Sport section) Because of the uneven weighting, the bowl will move in a curved motion towards the biased side, or the larger and heavier side. 3. a. Having a tendency, inclination, or leaning towards something; inclined or disposed to act, think, or behave in a particular way.Frequently with preceding nouns and adverbs. ΚΠ 1631 E. Cooke Bartas Junior 39 Sometimes the billowes of ambitious tide, Doth whirle him forward with full saile to pride: Anon the Blast of Pleasure sets him on To a bad bias'd conversation. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 3 When to Sin our byast Nature leans. 1808 Times 13 Sept. What well-biassed mind does not turn with horror from the innate treachery, the sanguinary ambition, the remorseless cruelty. 1962 Sunday Times 17 June 19/4 (advt.) Should a new products manager be technically biased or be marketing biased? 2001 Independent (Nexis) 28 June 5 [The course] attracts more mathematicians and scientists than arts-biased students. b. Influenced by preconceived opinion, favouritism, or prejudice; demonstrating, reflecting, or characterized by lack of impartiality.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [adjective] prejudicial1535 forestalled1543 forejudging1571 unindifferent1571 apassioned1574 prejudicate1579 prejudiced1579 preoccupate1587 preoccupiedc1598 prejudicious1599 prepossessed1611 prejudicated1633 biased1642 prejudiciary1642 prejudicant1645 prejudicatory1652 parti pris1923 value-laden1936 slanted1959 society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adjective] > partial or biased partial1425 affectionate1530 affectionated1535 affectioneda1578 biased1642 one-sided1834 partialistic1896 1642 T. Fulwar Serm. at Grayes-Inne 24 They were byast, partiall, and sinisterly affected people. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II lxxv, in Poems (1878) III. 155 How byassed all humane Actions are! 1793 C. Pigott Persecution Pref. p. v I deem it more wise and safe to remain as I am..than submit to the least possible chance of falling under the fangs of a biassed Judge, and a packed Jury. 1838 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 9 Oct. Whilst he would concede that the motives of the commissioners must be pure..they drew their information from biased and partial sources. 1899 Literary Digest 23 Dec. 784/2 These letters..are letters of complaint, and from them we learn that this journal is both..biased in favor of the Republican party and biased against it. 1952 N. Y. Herald Tribune (Paris) (European ed.) 11 July 2/1 I'm biased, of course, because I'm her father. 1994 United Church Observer Oct. 50/2 There are not many resources out there for single people. Society is biased toward coupledom. 2013 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) May 64/3 We always think we're the ones who are clear-sighted, and everyone else is biased and prejudiced. 4. Mechanics and Electronics. Of components and devices: given or possessing a bias (bias n. 5b, 7).reverse-biased: see the first element. ΚΠ 1875 E. W. Siemens & C. W. Frischen U.S. Patent 161,561 1/2 The signaling-instrument consists of one rotating magneto-inductor, or producer of electrical currents, and a pair of biased segments or arms and bells. 1904 Sci. Abstr. B. 7 535 The two 24-volt batteries are now in series, and a strong current sent through the ‘biassed’ relay at the provincial exchange. c1974 J. L. S. Maclay & B. L. Chalmers-Hunt Triumph 2000 & 2.5 PI 1963–74: Owner's Workshop Man. iii. 74/1 Fixed non-adjustable jet assembly and biased needle to give constant air to fuel ratio. 2012 D. Hunter Amped 150/1 In good condition, with a correctly biased quartet of NOS Mullard EL34s, a Custom 50 will easily put out well over 100 watts at full throttle. 5. Statistics. Of a statistical result: subject to a systematic distortion arising from the method of sampling, measurement, analysis, etc. Also of a method of sampling, measurement, analysis, etc.: introducing bias (bias n. 6). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > yielding distorted results biased1897 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [adjective] > in statistics biased1897 1897 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 60 859 In a practical calculation, estimated corrections should be applied for biassed errors. 1911 G. U. Yule Introd. Theory Statistics xiv. 276 Any sample, taken in the way supposed, is likely to be definitely biassed, in the sense that it will not tend to include, even in the long run, equal proportions of the A's and α's in the original material. 1952 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 21 157 It is a fairly heavily biased estimator and tends to underestimate the true value. 2007 K. Hansen Bobcat vi. 141 He warned that varying sex ratios can be the result of biased measuring techniques. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1599
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