(countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something. / (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence. / (electronics) To give a bias to.

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. / Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

(historical) One of the Seven Sages of Greece from Priene, living in the 6th century BC.

A surname.

(textiles) Describing the method of cutting fabric diagonally across the grain (so as to make the clothing cling to the body)

(US) Initialism of Bureau of Indian Affairs (a U.S. government federal agency for dealing with Native Amerindians).

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of force.

(psychology) A cognitive bias towards confirmation of the hypothesis under study.