Biased vs Discriminate - What's the difference?
biased | discriminate |
(bias)
exhibiting bias; prejudiced
angled at a slant
To make distinctions.
To make decisions based on prejudice.
To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
* Barrow
Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
As verbs the difference between biased and discriminate
is that biased is (bias) while discriminate is to make distinctions.As adjectives the difference between biased and discriminate
is that biased is exhibiting bias; prejudiced while discriminate is having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.biased
English
Alternative forms
* (UK) biassedVerb
(head)- She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
- The table had a biased edge.
Synonyms
* (having a partial view) partial, prejudiced, tendentiousAnagrams
*discriminate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Since he was colorblind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.
- The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.
- (Cowper)
- To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
Usage notes
Due to the strong pejorative connotations of sense of “decide based on prejudice”, care should be taken in using the term in the sense “distinguish, make distinctions”, and this sense is primarily used in formal discourse; synonyms are generally used instead.Synonyms
(make distinctions) * distinguish * differentiateDerived terms
* discriminative * discriminatoryAdjective
(en adjective)- (Francis Bacon)
