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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Bias \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (b[imac]"ast); p. pr.
     & vb. n. Biasing.]
     To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to
     influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should
           it have biased any just critic in the counter
           direction.                               --De Quincey.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Bias \Bi"as\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (b[imac]"ast); p. pr.
     & vb. n. Biasing.]
     To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to
     influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
  
           Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should
           it have biased any just critic in the counter
           direction.                               --De Quincey.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  biased
       adj 1: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account
              of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the
              defendant" [syn: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted]
       2: excessively devoted to one faction [syn: one-sided]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  biased
     Αγγλικά a.
     προκατειλημμένος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  biased
     a.
     1 Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
     2 angled at a slant.
     3 (lb en electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is
  applied.
     4 (lb en statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results
  due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
     vb.
     (infl of en bias  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  biased
     a.
     1 Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
     2 angled at a slant.
     3 (lb en electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is
  applied.
     4 (lb en statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results
  due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
     vb.
     (infl of en bias  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  biased
     a.
     1 Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
     2 angled at a slant.
     3 (lb en electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is
  applied.
     4 (lb en statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results
  due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
     vb.
     (infl of en bias  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  biased
     a.
     1 Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
     2 angled at a slant.
     3 (lb en electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is
  applied.
     4 (lb en statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results
  due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
     vb.
     (infl of en bias  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  biased
     Englanti a.
     puolueellinen, asenteellisen vinoutunut
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm b ias ed)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  biased
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en bias ordform=perfpart); fördomsfull; partisk
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb bias)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Biased /bˈaɪəst/
  متحيّز

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  biased //ˈbaɪəst// 
  предубеде́н, пристра́стен
  exhibiting bias; prejudiced

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/ 
  zkreslený

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/ 
  předpojatý

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/ 

tueddol

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  beeinflusst
   see: bias, biasing
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  einseitig  [pol.]  [soc.]
           Note: parteiisch
        "give sb. biased information"  - jdn. einseitig informieren
     Synonym: one-sided
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  fehlerbehaftet, verzerrt  [math.]
   see: biased estimates
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  parteiisch 
     Synonym: partial
  
   see: be biased
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  voreingenommen, befangen, vorbelastet  [psych.]
     Synonym: prejudiced
  
   see: be innocent of such biases, exhibit bias
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  vorgespannt  [electr.]  [phys.]
        "forward-biased"  - in Durchlassrichtung vorgespannt/gepolt, in Vorwärtsrichtung betrieben

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  
  προκατειλημμένος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  biased //ˈbaɪəst// 
  1. kalteva, vino
  angled at a slant
  2. puolueellinen, väritetty, vääristynyt
  exhibiting bias; prejudiced

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  biased /bˈaɪəst/
  polariziran, pristran, s odstupanjem

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  biased /ˈbaɪəst/ 
   1.  stronniczy, uprzedzony
   2.  nakierowany (towards - na)

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  biased /baiəst/
  1. parcial
  2. tendencioso

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  biased //ˈbaɪəst// 
  partisk, jävig, snedvriden
  exhibiting bias; prejudiced

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈbaɪəst/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "biased":
     across, antiblack, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bendwise, bent,
     bevel, beveled, bias, biaswise, canting, careening, catercorner,
     catercornered, chauvinistic, colored, cooked, crossways, crosswise,
     diagonal, disposed, distorted, doctored, doctrinaire, dogmatic,
     garbled, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining,
     influenced, interested, involved, jaundiced, kittycorner,
     know-nothing, leaning, listing, misquoted, misrepresented,
     nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, out of plumb, out of square,
     partial, partisan, perverted, pitched, predisposed, prejudiced,
     prepossessed, racist, raking, recumbent, sexist, shelving, shelvy,
     sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise,
     sloped, sloping, strained, superpatriotic, swayed, tendentious,
     thwart, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, tortured,
     transverse, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate,
     unneutral, warped, xenophobic
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     adj. 偏颇

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