Definition of Skew in English :

Define Skew in English

Skew meaning in English

Meaning of Skew in English

Pronunciation of Skew in English

Skew pronunciation in English

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Skew

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Verb

1. skew

turn or place at an angle

Example Sentences:
'the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed'

Adjective

2. skew, skewed

having an oblique or slanting direction or position

Example Sentences:
'the picture was skew'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Skew

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adjective
1. 
placed in or turning into an oblique position or course
2. 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
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. 
(of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal
5. 
distorted or biased
noun
6. 
an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position
7. psychology
the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant
verb
8. 
to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction
9. (intransitive)
to look sideways; squint
10. (transitive)
to place at an angle
11. (transitive)
to distort or bias

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Skew

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verb intransitive
1. 
to take a slanting or oblique course or direction; swerve or twist
2. 
to squint or glance sideways (at)
verb transitive
3. 
to make slanting or oblique; set at a slant
4. 
to bias, distort, or pervert
adjective
5. 
turned aside or to one side; slanting; oblique
6. 
having a part or arrangement that is so turned, as in gearing having the shafts neither parallel nor intersecting
7. 
not symmetrical
noun
8. 
a slant or twist
9. 
a slanting part or movement

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Skew

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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.

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