Bias vs Prejudicate - What's the difference?
bias | prejudicate |
(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. ยง 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.
(obsolete) Prejudiced, biased.
*1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.7:
*:their works will be embraced by most that understand them, and their reasons enforce belief even from prejudicate Readers.
Preconceived (of an opinion, idea etc.); formed before the event.
* Jeremy Taylor
*c. 1605 , (William Shakespeare), All's Well That Ends Well , First Folio 1623:
*:the Florentine will moue vs / For speedie ayde: wherein our deerest friend / Preiudicates the businesse, and would seeme / To haue vs make deniall.
As a proper noun bias
is .As an adjective prejudicate is
(obsolete) prejudiced, biased.As a verb prejudicate is
.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
* ----prejudicate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- ignorance and prejudicate opinions