Bias vs. Stereotype

Biasnoun

Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.

Biasnoun

The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

Biasnoun

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Biasnoun

(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

Biasnoun

(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.

Biasnoun

(sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn 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. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.

Biasnoun

(fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

Biasverb

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

Biasverb

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Biasadjective

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Biasadjective

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Biasadverb

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

Biasnoun

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.

Biasnoun

A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.

Biasnoun

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Biasnoun

A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

Biasadjective

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Biasadjective

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Biasadverb

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

Biasverb

To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

Biasnoun

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Biasnoun

a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

Biasverb

influence in an unfair way;

Biasverb

cause to be biased

Biasadjective

slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric;

Bias

Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned.

Stereotypenoun

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

Stereotypenoun

(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

Stereotypenoun

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

Stereotypenoun

An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Stereotypeverb

(transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

Stereotypeverb

(transitive) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

Stereotypeverb

(transitive) To print from a stereotype.

Stereotypeverb

To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Stereotypenoun

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

Stereotypenoun

The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

Stereotypeverb

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Stereotypeverb

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Stereotypenoun

a conventional or formulaic conception or image;

Stereotypeverb

treat or classify according to a mental stereotype;

Stereotypenoun

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Stereotypenoun

a person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they belong

Stereotypenoun

a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate.

Stereotypeverb

view or represent as a stereotype

Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.