BIASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biased mean? 

• BIASED (adjective)
  The adjective BIASED has 1 sense:

1. favoring one person or side over another

  Familiarity information: BIASED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Favoring one person or side over another

Synonyms:

biased; colored; coloured; one-sided; slanted

Context example:

a decision that was partial to the defendant

Similar:

partial (showing favoritism)

 Context examples 

I have no doubt that I was biased, but I think it was blamelessly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A coded value specifying the type of masking used on a study protocol to ensure that the results are not biased by the subjects or investigators.

(Interventional Study Protocol Version Blinding Schema Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Previous studies have shown evidence of "biased" signaling inside cells, where one pathway becomes more active than another.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Many earlier attempts to estimate the number of species on Earth ignored microorganisms or were informed by older datasets based on biased techniques or questionable extrapolations.

(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Upon administration, alpha-galactosylceramide-pulsed autologous dendritic cells may result in the activation and proliferation of a subset of endogenous natural killer T ( NKT) cells, B cells, and CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, and the production of interferon-gamma and interleukin-12; these cascade events may result in a T helper-1 cell-biased proinflammatory antitumor immune response.

(Alpha-Galactosylceramide-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

'Tis because you are an indifferent person, said Lucy, with some pique, and laying a particular stress on those words, that your judgment might justly have such weight with me. If you could be supposed to be biased in any respect by your own feelings, your opinion would not be worth having.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)