affect vs bias

affect

verb
  • To influence or alter. 

  • To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of. 

  • To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of. 

  • To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction. 

  • To move to emotion. 

  • Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body). 

noun
  • A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs. 

bias

verb
  • To place bias upon; to influence. 

  • To give a bias to. 

adj
  • Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. 

  • Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. 

noun
  • A person's favourite member of a K-pop band. 

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

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

  • Inclination towards something. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

adv
  • In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally. 

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