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skew
[ skyoo ]
verb (used with object)
- to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely:
In a crochet project, a slip stitch can skew the edge a bit if you use it to finish the final round.
- to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant:
The television show is skewed to the young teenager.
- to distort; depict unfairly:
When other researchers looked into the report, they found misrepresentation of data that skewed the evidence.
- Statistics. to cause (a distribution) to have a disproportionate number of data points above or below the mean:
The income categories for transit commuters were skewed toward higher incomes because the survey was only distributed through a phone app.
verb (used without object)
- to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course:
The car skewed sharply to the right when it hit the patch of ice.
- to display a tendency in a particular direction:
My reading skews toward nonfiction, which I suppose isn't that surprising for a historian.
- to be distorted or unfairly depicted:
The narrative presented by the country's leading newspapers skews toward an account that fits the needs of the state.
- to look obliquely; squint.
noun
- a tendency in a particular direction:
Officials involved in budget-related discussions said that there was a skew towards social sector spending.
- an oblique movement, direction, or position.
- Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.
adjective
- having an oblique direction or position; slanting; sideways:
The picture is square, but the angles of the trees give it a skew look.
- having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.:
skew gearing.
- Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.
- (of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.
- Statistics. (of a distribution) not symmetrical; having skewness.
skew
/ skjuː /
adjective
- placed in or turning into an oblique position or course
- machinery having a component that is at an angle to the main axis of an assembly or is in some other way asymmetrical
a skew bevel gear
- maths
- composed of or being elements that are neither parallel nor intersecting as, for example, two lines not lying in the same plane in a three-dimensional space
- (of a curve) not lying in a plane
- (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal
- distorted or biased
noun
- an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position
- psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant
verb
- to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction
- intr to look sideways; squint
- tr to place at an angle
- tr to distort or bias
skew
/ skyo̅o̅ /
- A transformation of coordinates in which one coordinate is displaced in one direction in proportion to its distance from a coordinate plane or axis. A rectangle, for example, that undergoes skew is transformed into a parallelogram.
- Also called shear
Word History and Origins
Origin of skew1
Word History and Origins
Origin of skew1
Example Sentences
In Scotland, hourly wage inequality matches the rest of the United Kingdom once the skew of London is factored out.
Other colleges took more overt actions to skew their Clery Act numbers.
There are a number of inadvertent and purposeful ways for universities to skew their Clery Act numbers.
Those numbers skew heavily toward the males, with just over 11 percent of male high school students reporting use.
Using capital gains but not government income would tend to skew the results toward the wealthy.
Niagara Falls' spectacular skew-wise splashing toward the Canadian side didn't set many hearts at ease, either.
She was put together skew-geed an' one side of her was so out of geer that she couldn't run straight even on a macadam road.
Another bridge is a perfectly constructed skew arch, which the train crosses a few feet after leaving Chicago.
That'll make everyone skew all weird and screwy, and make everyone look guilty.
Of a truth I will even buy me a skew-bald mount and ride round corners in search of the like reputation.
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