Bias

Definition

bias /'baÇǝs/ n [U, C usu sing ] ၁။ ဘက္လိုက္ျခင္း။ The university has a bias towards/in favour of/against the sciences. ❍ The committee is of a conservative bias. ❍ A judge should be completely without bias. ၂။ (ပိတ္စကို) ေထာင့္တန္းျဖတ္ ျခင္း။ The skirt is cut on the bias. v ( -s- , -ss- ) ~ sb (towards / in favour of / against sb/sth) (သေဘာထား) တစ္ဖက္ဖက္သို႔ ယိမ္းေစသည္။ The newspapers have bias(s)ed people against her. ❏ biased (also biassed ) adj ဘက္လိုက္ေသာ။ အစြဲရိွေသာ။ a bias(s)ed account/jury ❍ He is clearly bias(s)ed in the government's favour.

Examples

1. Ideally we’d choose judges who are without political bias.
2. [bias against/towards] : They were accused of bias against people over 50.
3. [bias towards] : A French course with a bias towards the spoken language