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Hunger is a related term of bias.


As a noun hunger

is hunger.

As a proper noun bias is

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hunger

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hunger, from (etyl) . Compare Dutch honger, German and Low German Hunger, Swedish hunger.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A need or compelling desire for food.
  • (by extension) Any strong desire.
  • I have a hunger to win.
  • * Spenser
  • O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
    Usage notes
    The phrase be hungry'' is more common than ''have hunger to express a need for food.
    Antonyms
    * satiety * satiation
    Derived terms
    * hunger is the best spice
    See also
    * thirst

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hyngran.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be in need of food.
  • (figuratively) To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
  • I hungered for your love.
  • * Bible, Matthew v. 6
  • Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.
  • (archaic) To make hungry; to famish.
  • References

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    Anagrams

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    bias

    English

    Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 4.
  • nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much
  • * John Locke
  • Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.
  • (countable, textiles) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric
  • (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
  • (electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode
  • (statistics) 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
  • (sports) In the game of crown green 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.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • there is a concealed bias within the spheroid

    Derived terms

    * bias tape

    Verb

  • To place bias upon; to influence.
  • Our prejudices bias our views.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
  • to cut cloth bias

    Anagrams

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