(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)

(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.

(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.

(sociology) A human tendency to respond to threat warnings with disbelief or minimization, and to similarly underestimate a disaster's deleterious effects.