vinouttaa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bias noun An unfair leaning toward or against something, often without a person even realizing it.
- garble verb To choose only parts of a text so as to twist its original meaning.
- shear verb To cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal.
- skew verb To turn or set something at a slant rather than straight.
Senses
vinouttaa is used for these senses in English:
- bias (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
- garble To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.
- shear (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- skew (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- skew (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- skew (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
bias — full definition
- noun An unfair leaning toward or against something, often without a person even realizing it.
- noun A diagonal direction across woven fabric, cut at 45 degrees to the straight threads.
- noun In statistics, a systematic error that skews a measurement or estimate away from the true value.
- verb To unfairly influence someone or something in a particular direction.
garble — full definition
- verb To choose only parts of a text so as to twist its original meaning.
- verb To alter a message so that it becomes untrue.
- verb To jumble a message so badly that it cannot be understood.
- verb To sift something so as to separate the good parts from waste or dirt.
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