skew

IPA: skjˈu

noun

  • Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
  • An oblique or sideways movement.
  • A squint or sidelong glance.
  • A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
  • A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
  • A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  • (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  • (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
  • (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
  • (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
  • (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

verb

  • (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  • (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
  • (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  • (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
  • (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  • (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  • (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

adjective

  • (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
  • (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
  • (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

adverb

  • (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
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Examples of "skew" in Sentences

  • The decision seems to skew the article.
  • This skews the articled from the start.
  • So the answer depends upon the amount of skew.
  • The new edits clearly skew the bias of the article.
  • The idea was to skew toward the sentimental, not the tawdry.
  • Instead you all attempt to skew the introduction of the subject.
  • Is the computer graphics skew rectangle the same as the Photoshop one
  • Both the language and the references are skewed to vilify the subjects.
  • Is it unfair to skew the case for a life of suburban domesticity this way
  • Meanwhile, their pollsters skew the polls to suit their clients' politics.

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