Meaning of पक्षपात in English

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.
The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting.
The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
Foresight.
An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Preoccupation; prior possession.
Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood.
Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.