skew

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To take an oblique course or direction.
2. v. To look obliquely or sideways.
3. v. To turn or place at an angle.
4. v. To give a bias to; distort.
5. adj. Placed or turned to one side; asymmetrical.
6. adj. Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
7. adj. Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
8. adj. Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
9. adj. Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.
10. n. An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To turn aside; slip or fall away; escape.
2. To start aside; swerve; shy, as a horse.
3. To move or go obliquely; sidle.
4. To look obliquely; squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
5. To turn aside; give an oblique direction to; hence, to distort; put askew.
6. To shape or form in an oblique way.
7. To throw or hurl obliquely.
8. To throw violently. Compare shy.
9. Having an oblique position; oblique; turned or twisted to one side: as, a skew bridge.
10. Distorted; perverted; perverse.
11. In mathematics, having disturbed symmetry by certain elements being reversed on opposite sides; also, more widely, distorted.
12. A casting on the end of a truss to which a tensionrod may be attached. It may form a cap, or be shaped to fit the impost.
13. A carvers' chisel having the shank bent to allow the edge to reach a sunken surface.
14. n. A deviation or distortion; hence, an error; a mistake.
15. n. An oblique glance; a squint.
16. n. A piebald or skew-bald animal, especially a horse.
17. n. A skew wheel.
18. n. 5. In architecture, thn sloping top of a buttress where it slants off against a wall; a coping mounting on a slant, as that of a gable; a stone built into the base-angle of a gable, or other similar situation, to support a coping above. Compare skew-corbel, below.
19. Aslant; aslope; obliquely; awry; askew.
20. n. An obsolete variant of sky.
21. n. Same as scow.
22. n. A cup.
23. n. In mathematics, a regulus.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).
2. v. To change or alter in a particular direction.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adv. Awry; obliquely; askew.
2. adj. Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
3. n. A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
4. v. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
5. v. To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
6. v. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
7. v. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
8. v. To throw or hurl obliquely.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. having an oblique or slanting direction or position
2. v. turn or place at an angle