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skew
(skyo͞o)v. skewed, skew·ing, skews
v.tr.
1. To turn or place at an angle: skew the cutting edge of a plane.
2. To give a bias to; distort: The use of a limited sample skewed the findings of the study.
v.intr.
1. To take an oblique course or direction.
2. To look obliquely or sideways.
3. To display a statistical tendency toward: a television program that skews toward teenagers.
adj.
1. Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.
2. Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
3. Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
4.
a. Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
b. Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.
n.
An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.
[Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways, from Old North French eskiuer, of Germanic origin.]
skew′ness n.
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skew
(skjuː)adj
1. placed in or turning into an oblique position or course
2. (Mechanical Engineering) 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.
3. (Mathematics) maths
a. 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
b. (of a curve) not lying in a plane
4. (Statistics) (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal
5. distorted or biased
n
6. an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position
7. (Psychology) psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant
vb
8. to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction
9. (intr) to look sideways; squint
10. (tr) to place at an angle
11. (tr) to distort or bias
[C14: from Old Norman French escuer to shun, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch schuwen to avoid]
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skew
(skyu)v.i.
1. to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
2. to look askance; squint.
v.t. 3. to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely.
4. to distort; misrepresent: to skew data.
adj. 5. having an oblique direction or position; slanting.
6. having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing.
7. Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness.
n. 8. an oblique movement, direction, or position.
9. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.
[1350–1400; (v.) Middle English: to slip away, swerve < Middle Dutch schuwen to get out of the way, shun]
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skew
Past participle: skewed
Gerund: skewing
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| Verb | 1. | skew - turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed" reorient - set or arrange in a new or different determinate position; "Orient the house towards the South" |
| Adj. | 1. | skew - having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" inclined - at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane" |
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skew
verb distort, slant, misrepresent, colour, twist, weigh, bias, falsify This figure is skewed because much of the work still hasn't been done.
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skew
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Translations
مائِلمُنْحَرِف
šikmýzkřivit
gøre skævskæv
kaldkallutama
ferdévé teszferdít
skáhallur, skakkurskekkja
asimetriškasiškrypti
greizssagrieztsagrieztiessašķiebtsašķiebties
zošikmiť
skew
[skjuː]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
skew
[ˈskjuː] n
on the skew → de travers, en biais
on the skew → de travers, en biais
adj → de travers
vt (= distort) [+ results, statistics] → fausser
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
skew
vi the car skewed off the road → der Wagen kam von der Straße ab; the ball skews to the right → der Ball hat einen Rechtsdrall
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
skew
[skjuː]1. adj → storto/a
skew distribution (Math) → distribuzione f asimmetrica
skew lines (Math) → rette fpl sghembe
skew distribution (Math) → distribuzione f asimmetrica
skew lines (Math) → rette fpl sghembe
3. n (Brit) on the skew → storto/a, di traverso
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
skew
(skjuː) adjective not straight or symmetrical.
verb to make or be distorted, not straight.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
skew
n. movimiento oblicuo-a, movimiento sesgado-a, de lado.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012