ambition vs bias

ambition

noun
  • An object of an ardent desire. 

  • Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. 

  • A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. 

  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things. 

verb
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. 

bias

noun
  • Inclination towards something. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

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