noun • Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
• The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
• A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
• A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
• 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.
• In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
• A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
