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 obliquely a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric a punctuation mark used to separate related items of information a diagonal line or plane a line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
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 fabrica voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrodethe 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: The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.