Bias vs Govern - What's the difference?

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Bias is a related term of govern.

As a proper noun bias

is .

As a verb govern is

to make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

bias

English

Noun

(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.

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

* John Locke

Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.

(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

there is a concealed bias within the spheroid

Derived terms

* bias tape

Verb

To place bias upon; to influence.

Our prejudices bias our views.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

(Shakespeare)

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Adverb

(-)

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

to cut cloth bias

Anagrams

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govern

English

Verb

(en verb)

To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.

Govern yourselves like civilized people.

a student who could not govern his impulses.

To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.

To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.

a valve that governs fuel intake.

To exercise political authority; to run a government.

To have or exercise a determining influence.

To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.