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.
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
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.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
To place bias upon; to influence.
To give a bias to.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.