skew

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This skew was even more extreme in the extra-budgetary funds.

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  1. intransitive verb To take an oblique course or direction.
  2. intransitive verb To look obliquely or sideways.
  3. transitive verb To turn or place at an angle.

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  • It does kind of skew or lend itself a little bit towards the middle and higher end near term and kind of gets back to Glen's earlier point that, I think physicians are generally looking at kind of how quickly they need to move to be prepared and obviously the larger more complex practices. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • For some of our other verticals such as beer and barbeque the skew is certainly male. —  Adotas
  • Perceptual hashes must be flexible enough to take into account transformations that could have been performed on the input, such as rotation, skew, altering contrast, etc., yet be robust enough to distinguish between visually or auditorily dissimilar inputs. —  doggdot.us
  • Grow houses definately take up supply, but the skew is from no cheap house sales and a couple high dollar ones. —  North Coast Journal Comments
  • What I mean is in normal skew, the lower the strike, the higher the volatility. —  Daily Options Report
 

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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways, from Old North French eskiuer, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Formerly also skiew, skue, scue; from Middle English skewen, *skuen, turn aside, slip away, escape, from Old Dutch scūwen, Middle Dutch schuwen, schouwen, Dutch sehuwen =Middle Low German schuwen, Low German schuwen, schouen =Old High German scūhen, sciuhen, Middle High German schiuhen, schiuwen, German scheuchen, scheuen, get out of the way, avoid, shun; from the adjective: D. schuw, etc., = Anglo-Saxon sceoh, shy: see shy, a., and cf. shy, v., which is ult. a doublet of skew, v. The word appears to have nothing to do with Icelandic skeifr =Swedish skef =Danish skjæv =D. scheef =North. Friesic skiaf =G. schief, oblique (which is represented in English by the dial, skiff, and of which the verb is Sw, skefva, look askance, squint, =Danish skjæve, slant, slope, swerve, look askance), or with Icelandic ā skā, askew, skādhr, askew, which are generally supposed to be connected.
  2. Formerly also skue, scue; from skew, v.
  3. from skew, v., in part from skew, a.
  4. from skew, a. Cf. askew.
  5. Origin obscure.
 

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