Bias
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To place bias upon; to influence.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection (textile) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode 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
Example sentence: On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
Diagonal
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).Having a slanted or oblique direction, lines or markings.Pertaining to the front left and back right (or the front right and back left) legs of a quadruped.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: something arranged diagonally or obliquelya line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabrica punctuation mark used to separate related items of informationa diagonal line or planea line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.