Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To turn or place at an angle.
- intransitive verb To give a bias to; distort.
- intransitive verb To take an oblique course or direction.
- intransitive verb To look obliquely or sideways.
- intransitive verb To display a statistical tendency toward.
- adjective Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.
- adjective Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
- adjective Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
- adjective Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
- adjective Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.
- noun An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn aside; slip or fall away; escape.
- To start aside; swerve; shy, as a horse.
- To move or go obliquely; sidle.
- To look obliquely; squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To turn aside; give an oblique direction to; hence, to distort; put askew.
- To shape or form in an oblique way.
- To throw or hurl obliquely.
- To throw violently. Compare
shy . - Aslant; aslope; obliquely; awry; askew.
- Having an oblique position; oblique; turned or twisted to one side: as, a skew bridge.
- Distorted; perverted; perverse.
- In mathematics, having disturbed symmetry by certain elements being reversed on opposite sides; also, more widely, distorted.
- 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.
- A carvers' chisel having the shank bent to allow the edge to reach a sunken surface.
- noun Same as
scow . - noun An obsolete variant of
sky . - noun A deviation or distortion; hence, an error; a mistake.
- noun An oblique glance; a squint.
- noun A piebald or skew-bald animal, especially a horse.
- noun A skew wheel.
- noun 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. - noun In mathematics, a regulus.
- noun A cup.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Awry; obliquely; askew.
- noun (Arch.) 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.
- transitive verb To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- transitive verb To throw or hurl obliquely.
- intransitive verb To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
- intransitive verb To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- adjective Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
- adjective an oblique arch. See under
Oblique . - adjective (Civil Engin.) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame.
- adjective See under
Bridge , n. - adjective (Geom.) a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under
Curve . - adjective (Mach.) toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the faces of the gears.
- adjective (Geom.) a ruled surface such that in general two successive generating straight lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a
skew surface .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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I'm not convinced the gender skew is a result of a Hugo gender bias though.
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The real question about the ED skew is whether the prospects for any given student differ depending on when he or she applies.
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The real question about the ED skew is whether the prospects for any given student differ depending on when he or she applies.
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"The near-term skew of risks remains bearishly postured for Treasurys after yesterday's sell-off," said strategists at RBS Securities.
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But collections of disjointed, if linked, stories are far less common, and this year’s Pulitzer skew is one of the oddest I’ve seen.
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Fortunately, Americans pretty much now what’s going on, and the blatant skew is hurting media subscriptions.
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That you’d even think to mention the “filthy lucre” aspect shows how significant the skew is – people would criticize the guy for making money from his site.
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Another options pricing measure, known as "skew," could be attracting options traders to strategies that involve selling pricey put contracts.
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The relative premium investors must pay for protective options, known as "skew," has been steadily rising, meaning the already-hedged have little incentive to reach for insurance absent an unforeseen market drop, he said.
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The relative premium investors must pay for protective options, known as "skew," has been steadily rising, meaning the already-hedged have little incentive to reach for insurance absent an unforeseen market drop, he said.
bilby commented on the word skew
See also skewbald for the etymological notes regarding skew- in that compound.
March 19, 2016