different between mind vs bias

English

Etymology

From Middle English minde, münde, ?emünde, from Old English mynd, ?emynd (“memory, remembrance; memorial, record; act of commemoration; thought, purpose; consciousness, mind, intellect”), from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic ???????????????????? (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin m?ns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit ???? (mánas), Ancient Greek ????? (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?nd, IPA^(key): /ma?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd
• Homophone: mined

Noun

mind (plural minds)

1. The ability for rational thought.
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     “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

2. The ability to be aware of things.

3. The ability to remember things.

4. The ability to focus the thoughts.

5. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

6. Judgment, opinion, or view.

7. Desire, inclination, or intention.
8. A healthy mental state.

9. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

   • 1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, p.19:

     The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
10. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.

    a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind

Synonyms

• (ability for rational thought): brain(s), head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit; See also Thesaurus:intelligence
• (ability to be aware of things): awareness, consciousness, sentience; See also Thesaurus:awareness
• (ability to remember things): memory, recollection; See also Thesaurus:recollection
• (ability to focus the thoughts): attention, concentration, focus
• (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities): genius, intellectual, thinker; See also Thesaurus:genius
• (judgment, opinion, or view): judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view; See also Thesaurus:judgement
• (desire, inclination, or intention): desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood; See also Thesaurus:desire or Thesaurus:intention
• (healthy mental state): sanity; See also Thesaurus:sanity
• (process of): cognition, learning

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle minding, simple past and past participle minded)

1. To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
   • 1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70:

     Mind to-morrow's early meeting!

2. (now regional) To remember. [from 14th c.]
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:

     The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.

3. (Obsolete or dialectical) To remind; put one's mind on.
   • 1599, William Shakespear, Henry V, Act IV, sc 3:

     Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.

   • c. 1610-11, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene 2:

     Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth

     I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.

   • 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, "Of True and False Ideas"

     I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.

   • He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.

4. To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
   • ca. 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, sc. 2:

     Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.

5. To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
   • 1611, King James Translators, Romans 12:16:

     Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

   • 1907 E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]:

     It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.

6. (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]

   Mind you don't knock that glass over.

7. (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed. [from 15th c.]

   You should mind your own business.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I Scene i:

     My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.

   • 1712, Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 383 (May 20, 1710:

     Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.

   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, page 84:

     Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.

8. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]

   Would you mind my bag for me?

9. To be careful about. [from 18th c.]
   • 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, ?ISBN, page xv:

     Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.

10. (now Obsolete except in Dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, sc. 1

      I mind to tell him plainly what I think.

    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

      […] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.

11. (Britain, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.

    I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.

12. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. [from 16th c.]

    I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.

    Do you mind if I smoke?

Synonyms

• (remember): See also Thesaurus:remember
• (dislike): See also Thesaurus:dislike
• (pay attention to): heed; See also Thesaurus:pay attention
• (look after): See also Thesaurus:care

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Verb

mind

1. imperative of minde

Estonian

Etymology

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Pronoun

mind

1. partitive singular of mina

Hungarian

Etymology

Presumably from mi? (“what?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mind]
• Rhymes: -ind

Pronoun

mind

1. all of it, all of them, each of them (grammatically singular)

   Synonyms: mindegyikük, mindegyik, az összes

Declension

Adverb

mind (not comparable)

1. with everyone, all (usually of persons)

   Synonyms: mindnyájan, mindannyian

2. (formal) increasingly (used with comparative form)

   Synonym: egyre

3. (up) until…, up to… (used with -ig; not (until) sooner than a given point in time)

   Synonym: egészen

   (Note: Most other phrases with this meaning are written without a space: mindaddig, mindeddig, mindmáig, mindmostanáig, mindvégig)

Derived terms

Conjunction

mind

1. (formal) both... and..., as well as

   Synonym: is

References

Further reading

• (pronoun & adverb): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (conjunction): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mendus (“mark, sign”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?in?d/

Noun

mind n (nominative plural mind)

1. A symbol indicating honour or rank; a crown, insignia, emblem

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: mionn
• Scottish Gaelic: mionn

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mind, minn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Etymology

From Old English ?emynd, from Proto-Germanic *gamundiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?end/

Noun

mind (plural minds)

1. memory, recollection.
2. mind.

Verb

mind (third-person singular present minds, present participle mindin, past mindit, past participle mindit)

1. To remember.
2. To remind.
3. To mind, care.

English

Etymology

c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570).

From French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century.The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from an unattested Latin *biaxius "with two axes".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?ba??s/
• Rhymes: -a??s

Noun

bias (countable and uncountable, plural biases or biasses)

1. (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.

   Synonyms: predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection

   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 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
2. (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
3. (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
4. (electronics) 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.
5. (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.
6. (sports) 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.[from 1560s]
7. (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
   • 2015, "Top 10 Tips For Travelling To Korea", UKP Magazine, Winter 2015, page 37:

     The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.

   • 2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page:

     Sweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.

   • 2019, Joelle Weatherford, "Can't stop the K-Pop train", The Eagle (Northeast Texas Community College), 7 May 2019, page 8:

     One in particular, Minho, really caught my eye. He became what is called my bias or favorite member.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bias.

Derived terms

• bias tape
• on the bias

Translations

Verb

bias (third-person singular simple present biases or biasses, present participle biasing or biassing, simple past and past participle biased or biassed)

1. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
2. (electronics) To give a bias to.
   • 2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87.

     On the ohmic side n⁺ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector.

Translations

Adjective

bias (comparative more bias, superlative most bias)

1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

   Synonym: biased
2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Translations

Adverb

bias (not comparable)

1. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

   to cut cloth bias

Translations

Further reading

• bias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ABIs, AIBs, IABs, IBSA, bais, basi-, isba

Indonesian

Etymology

From English bias, from French biais.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bi.as]
• Hyphenation: bi?as

Noun

bias

1. bias,
   1. inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
   2. (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.
   3. (physics) the turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density.
   4. (colloquial) a person's favourite member of a idol group, such as K-pop band.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “bias” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Old Irish

Verb

bias

1. third-person singular future relative of at·tá
2. third-person singular future relative of benaid

Mutation