Bias vs Agenda - What's the difference?
bias | agenda |
(countable, uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.
* John Locke
(countable, textiles) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric
(countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
(electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode
(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
(sports) In the game of crown green 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.
* Sir Walter Scott
To place bias upon; to influence.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
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As a proper noun bias
is .As a noun agenda is
agenda (a temporally organized plan or list of things to be addressed).bias
English
Noun
- nature 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
- Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.
- there is a concealed bias within the spheroid
Derived terms
* bias tapeVerb
- Our prejudices bias our views.
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Shakespeare)
Adverb
(-)- to cut cloth bias
Anagrams
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(wikipedia agenda)Noun
(en noun)- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
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- A homework agenda , sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
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- It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
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- The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas .
