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Dispose vs Bias - What's the difference?

dispose | bias |

As an adjective dispose

is organized, placed in a certain fashion, arranged.

As a verb dispose

is .

As a proper noun bias is

.

dispose

English

(wikipedia dispose)

Verb

(dispos)
  • To eliminate or to get rid of something.
  • :
  • To distribute and put in place.
  • *1600 , (William Shakespeare), , act 4, scene III
  • *:Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
  • *1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , chapter 6
  • *:Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
  • *1934 , (Rex Stout), edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 47:
  • *:I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in.
  • To deal out; to assign to a use.
  • *(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
  • *:what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
  • To incline.
  • : (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
  • (lb) To bargain; to make terms.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:She had disposed with Caesar.
  • (lb) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:the knightly forms of combat to dispose

    • Synonyms

    * incline * discard

    Antonyms

    * indispose * disincline

    Derived terms

    * disposition * disposal * dispose of

    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

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