skew
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: skews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skewed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skewer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more skew
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: skewest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most skew
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When making this joint it is important to see that the eccentric or crank is at dead-centre; if it is at the end or limit of its stroke, the rubber is skewed the full length of same; if it is at the centre, the skewing, which is the cause of wear, is halved.
Thus asynchronous torques cannot be avoided but can be reduced by proper choice of coil span and by skewing the stator or rotor slots.
Skewing an object, as we mention at the start of this section, involves distorting the angles of the object. For example, you can create a parallelogram by skewing a square, or you can create shadow effects with skewed text (which we show you later in this chapter).
The easiest way to skew objects is to use the Free Transform tool. [...] Use the left box to skew horizontally. To skew clockwise, click the current value and then either type a value between 1 and 89 or drag up. To skew counterclockwise, click the current value and then either type a value between −1 and −89 or drag down. Then press Enter or Return.
gloss: To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We have looked at the obese and anorexic communities, whose conditions fall on a curve skewed towards overweight for determining the social norm of body weight and who face a golden-mean social ideal of body weight.
gloss: To bias or distort in a particular direction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
Accordingly, public policy can be skewed towards certain interest groups which have the best organization and most resources; it can be skewed towards certain politically powerful state agencies; and it can be skewed by intense rivalries between different sectors of government itself.
because of parliamentary rules written by the military after the 2014 coup that are skewed in its favour.
Trump urged his followers to “boycott baseball” – though, much like his core support, the sport’s fanbase skews older, male and white.
gloss: To hurl or throw.
pos: verb
tags: Northumbria
Yorkshire
transitive
gloss: To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Child, (ſays the Mother) You muſt Uſe your ſelf to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing ſo Every Step you ſet: Pray Mother (ſays the Young Crab) do but ſet the Example your ſelf, and I'll follow ye.
[T]he plaintiff's surveyor says, his line struck the house ten inches in the rear and fifteen inches in the front; and farther that the "house is a little skewing and is not set exactly square."
The upper sign corresponds to the case represented in the figure in which the arch skews to the right, and the lower one to the case in which it skews to the left.
gloss: To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The horses capered. One tore its reins from her hands, burning a trail across her palms. She clung to the other as it pulled against the restraint. Frantically, Brienne moved to its side, pitching the reins over the beast's head, and jammed her foot into the stirrup. The horse skewed, drawing her along on one foot.
gloss: To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [C]an this durt draw us / To ſuch a ſtupid tameneſſe, that our ſervice / Neglected, and look'd lamely on, and skewd at / With a few honourable words, and this, is righted?
The cows stood round her in a wondering way, / And kept the stranger with her fears at bay; / They tost their heads and snuff'd the morning gales, / Skewing at her: [...]
gloss: Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a skew arch
[O]ur earth which makes one in that airy fleet when it eſcaped ſo narrowly being ſhipwrackt in the great Deluge, was however ſo broken and diſordered that it loſt its equal poiſe and thereupon the centre of its gravity changing, one Pole became more inclined towards the Sun and the other more removed from it, in which ſkew poſture it hath ſtood ever ſince.
And this is done by cauſing the Threads of the Screw C D to take hold of the oblique or ſkew Teeth of the Wheel as c, and by continually turning the Wheel round to draw up a great Weight as W by means of the Rope which is wound on the Axis E F.
She pretended to faint, bow'd to the duke and ducheſs, and alſo to the two kings; but caſting a ſkew look upon Don Quixote, heaven forgive that hard-hearted lovely knight, ſaid ſhe, whoſe barbarity has made me an inhabitant of the other world for ought I know a thouſand years.
Over Barrow-street the arch is built with what is technically called knee'd or elbow quoins; the stones being cut so as to form an oblique or skew bed on the face of the ring, and to return to a square bed within: [...]
Here is another of those magnificent skew bridges, sprung from the sides of the excavation. Looking at it with the face towards the tunnel, when you are about 200 yards distant, the effect is very singular, as it appears to be a portion of the entrance thereto.
Their [the graves'] enclosure walls, within which several burials were found, were at right angles to the great wall of the town, and cut through the other graves (mastabas) which, though parallel to one another, were skew to the town walls.
The last crossing, immediately short of Keswick station, is an inverted bowstring girder bridge with a skew span of 120ft.
Ocular tilt reaction [...]—the triad of head tilt in roll, skew deviation of the eyes, and cyclorotation of the eyes towards the head tilt—may indicate a lesion induced deviation of the primary position of the vertical VOR [vestibulo-ocular reflex] in either peripheral otolithic or central vestibular brain stem disorders. [...] Skew deviation, a vertical divergence of the eyes, theoretically can be due to: (1) hypertropia of one eye while the other eye maintains a normal position; [...]
gloss: Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Through the given point there are two lines one of which is parallel to one of the given skew lines, while the other is parallel to the other of the given skew lines. These two "parallels" determine a plane, and the only plane, that is parallel to both the given skew lines.
gloss: Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
not-comparable
usually
examples: A slope value over 1 indicates that digits are skewer than the Benford condition in favor of low ones. A slope value less than 1 indicates that digits are less skewed as compared with the Benford condition.
The skewest possible distribution is that in which every but one target value has only one element and the other target value has all the other elements.
gloss: Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
pos: noun
gloss: An oblique or sideways movement.
pos: noun
gloss: A squint or sidelong glance.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
pos: noun
examples: We now come to Whiston village and bridge, (7½ miles) and after passing under a wooden bridge, dash under one of 47 feet span, of stone and brick, with a remarkable skew.
Thus one of the many skews in the Harleian Catalogue was set straight. (Don't let any one abuse the first Cataloguer of a Collection for skews. For all Catalogues (as for all Indexes) one ought to be grateful: for those without mistakes, most grateful.)
The angle of skew, or obliquity, is the angle which the axis of the archway, A A, makes with a perpendicular to the face of the arch, B C A B. The span of the archway, "on the square," as it is called (that is, the perpendicular distance between the abutments), is less than the span on the skew, or parallel to the face of the arch, in the ratio of the cosine of the obliquity to unity. It is the span on the skew which is equal to that of the corresponding symmetrical arch.
The mean skew of the core to the base is 1′ 33″, and its mean azimuth - 5′ 16″ to true North.
It is apparent that by shifting the position of the hitching link the angle of skew may be increased or diminished as the conditions require. When dragging immediately over ruts or down the center of the road after the sides have been dragged, it is usually preferable to have the hitching link at the center of the chain and to run the drag without skew.
gloss: A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
pos: noun
examples: One application for which an optical filter can play an important role is that of a wideband connection with low time skew. [...] One signal, the clock, needs to be distributed to all parts of a digital circuit to synchronize its action. The necessarily long path results in the danger of the clock signal arriving at the wrong time (clock skew), limiting the maximum frequency at which the circuit may be clocked.
Until recently, there has been a great reluctance to alter the clock network and attempt a nonzero-skew solution. However, recently, an increasing number of designers have been willing to utilize skews for performance enhancement.
gloss: A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
pos: noun
examples: Skewness (skew) is the degree to which a distribution's shape departs from symmetry [...]. The greater the departure, the greater the skew. Symmetric distributions have no skew. For instance, the normal distribution is symmetric and is thus not a skewed distribution.
Skew is the contour, or the unevenness, in a distribution, the dent in the bell curve. A negative skew suggests that the left half of the normal distribution (the left side of the mean) is twisted in such a way that the prospect of achieving negative returns is superior to that of achieving large positive returns. [...] When dealing with skew, traders strive to resolve how frequently in the trading time horizon they will obtain negative returns rather than positive returns. A skew demonstrates the relationship between the movement of an underlying asset and its volatility.
Synonyms: neither parallel nor perpendicular
Derived words: deskew
nonskewed
skewable
skewed
skewer
skewing
skewy
unskew
unskewed
Skewb
clock skew
skew arch
skewback
skewbald
skew bevel gear
skew gear
skew bridge
skew chisel
skewcrop
skew curve
skew factor
skew field
skew-gee
skew-Hermitian
skewjawed
skewly
skewon
skew pivot-journal
skew pulley
skew rolling mill
skew spur wheel
skew surface
skew symmetric
skew-symmetric
skew-symmetric determinant
skew-symmetric matrix
skew symmetry
skew-symmetry
skew-T log-P diagram
skew wheel
skew-whiff
skew whiff
skew whift
skew-whift
skew-wiff
skew wiff
skew wift
skew-wift
on the skew
skew normal distribution
skewness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изкривявам
roman: izkrivjavam
lang: Finnish
word: tehdä vinoksi
lang: Finnish
word: muotoilla vinoksi
lang: Finnish
word: vinouttaa
lang: French
word: incliner
lang: German
word: verfälschen
lang: Hungarian
word: ferdít
lang: Hungarian
word: elferdít
lang: Hungarian
word: dönt
lang: Hungarian
word: megdönt
lang: Hungarian
word: ferdén helyez el
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nakositi