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bias
Noun
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A bias is a preference in one direction that makes things unequal.
There is strong evidence of a bias towards the death penalty for black rather than white murderers.
They had plans for an international centre, with a strong political bias.
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The bias is the diagonal direction, especially in cloth.
The neckline was cut on the bias to improve the drape of the fabric.
bias
Verb
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If you bias something, you unfairly make one result more likely than another.
Sexism in language biases experience constantly towards the male sex.
By not providing this information, you bias the results.
test
Noun
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A test is writing that many learners do in a room at the same time so that people are able to see how much knowledge the learners have.
I'm happy because I got a high mark on the test.
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A test is something someone does to see if something works.
The person did a good test of the machine by pushing all the buttons and watching the machine.
test
Verb
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The action of testing; to try something out to see whether it works.
He tested the software many times.