To give a bias to.
To place bias upon; to influence.
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.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.
Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future.
Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now.
Used to express a conditional outcome.
With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way.
Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance.
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
Simple past tense of shall.
In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc.
Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').
Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.
Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc.
Something that ought to be the case as opposed to already being the case.