skewedadj.¹

/skjuːd/

Forms: Also Middle English scued, skevyd, Middle English–1600s skued, 1600s skude, skewd.

Etymology: Of doubtful origin: perhaps < Old French escu shield (compare Latin scutulātus as a colour of a horse, < scutula platter), but there is also close resemblance in form and sense to Icelandic skjóttr, the history of which is equally obscure.

? Obsolete.

Skewbald. In quot. 1495 the reading of the Bodleian MS. is scawed, translating maculosum of the original.

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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > piebald > skewbald

skewedc1440

skewbald1647

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > skewbald

skewedc1440

skewbald1647

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 703 The skewed goos, the brune goose as the white Is not fecounde.

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 810 The gray [horse], the goldenhered and the skued [v.r. scued].

1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 507 Item, payd to Richard Wayfer..for a skevyd nagg iiij.s.

1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxvi. 830 Some Catte is whyte, some red, some blacke, some skewed and specklyd.

a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 142 Some be flybytten, Some skewed as a kytten.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 116^v The yelowish and the skued or pyed Horses are discommended almost of all men.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pecile, a pide, or skude colour of a horse.

1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 323 Skewd was his horse, of manie colors chaunginge.

a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) (at cited word) A skew'd horse, one of two colours.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

skewedadj.²

/skjuːd/

Etymology: < skew n.³ or skew v.²

a. Set obliquely or aslant; skew. Also in combinations.

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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective]

embelifc1400

inclining?c1400

oblique?a1425

inclinate?1440

hieldingc1480

inclined?a1500

bias1551

overthwart1594

sidelong1598

squinty1598

skew1609

traverse1609

skewed1611

obliquous1614

squint1703

inclinated1751

slanting1768

slanted1770

slant1776

aslant1791

diagonal1796

rakish1830

slantindicular1832

slantwise1856

slaunchways1913

slanty1928

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vi. 4 (margin) Windowes broad within and narrow without; or skewed and closed.

a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) iv. i. 39 As I live I am asham'd, this wench has reach'd me,..This skew'd eyde Carren.

1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 109/1 It is in the construction of railroads that the skewed arch meets with its most important application.

1895 C. R. B. Barrett Surrey iii. 95 The eastern half of the chancel is skewed internally.

b. figurative.

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1960 Economist 25 June 1330/1 This triple structure [of a book] is a magnificent achievement,..but its magnificence is..skewed at its foundation... The skewness derives from Professor Hayek's perfectly legitimate definition of freedom.

1977 New Yorker 17 Oct. 78/2 She quickly came to share her husband's feelings about the skewed state of the world.

a. Statistics. = skew adj. 1c.

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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > relating to distribution > not normal

skew1895

non-normal1896

non-central1928

skewed1940

1940 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 30 259 A difficult test tends to produce a positively skewed score-scatter.

1953 E. Mayr et al. Methods & Princ. Systematic Zool. vii. 134 A skewed curve is a curve in which the mode..is above or below the mean.

1977 Lancet 5 Feb. 311/1 In our hands, the crude breath-test results are highly skewed, but logarithmic transformation does produce a distribution which is indistinguishable from normal.

1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. iii. 22 The distribution shown in Fig. 3.1 is skewed to the right; i.e. it has more values to the right of its highest frequency (mode) than to the left.

b. Of a sample or data: biased, not representative.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [adjective] > serving as a sample > not representative

skewed1975

1975 Amer. Speech 1973 48 6 Since the data used for restructuring would have been external and skewed, one would expect attempts at restructuring to be only partially successful.

1977 Times 12 May 23/2 Quotas..are at present heavily skewed in favour of those countries which were economically powerful when the [International Monetary] Fund was set up.

3. Distorted; shifted in emphasis or character.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [adjective] > represented imperfectly

garbleda1757

misrepresented1796

oversold1879

misdescribed1891

skewed1935

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > misused > misapplied > perverted

perverted1844

skewed1980

1935 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. iii. 105 A range of frequency where the skewed phoneme t in ts would be most stable.

1965 E. I. Haugen Norwegian Eng. Dict. 40/1 The typical East Norwegian (Oslo) [vowel] system is markedly skewed (in the same direction as Swedish)... The whole system has undergone a counterclockwise movement.

1980 Nature 17 Jan. 234/1 Critics..argued that the military control of research meant such research would inevitably be skewed towards the production of weapons of mass destruction.

1981 Time 7 Dec. 79/2 The wildness of the cat, its..skewed version of reality.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	skewed
释义	skewedadj.¹ /skjuːd/ Forms: Also Middle English scued, skevyd, Middle English–1600s skued, 1600s skude, skewd. Etymology: Of doubtful origin: perhaps < Old French escu shield (compare Latin scutulātus as a colour of a horse, < scutula platter), but there is also close resemblance in form and sense to Icelandic skjóttr, the history of which is equally obscure. ? Obsolete. Skewbald. In quot. 1495 the reading of the Bodleian MS. is scawed, translating maculosum of the original. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > piebald > skewbald skewedc1440 skewbald1647 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > skewbald skewedc1440 skewbald1647 c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 703 The skewed goos, the brune goose as the white Is not fecounde. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 810 The gray [horse], the goldenhered and the skued [v.r. scued]. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 507 Item, payd to Richard Wayfer..for a skevyd nagg iiij.s. 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxvi. 830 Some Catte is whyte, some red, some blacke, some skewed and specklyd. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 142 Some be flybytten, Some skewed as a kytten. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 116^v The yelowish and the skued or pyed Horses are discommended almost of all men. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pecile, a pide, or skude colour of a horse. 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 323 Skewd was his horse, of manie colors chaunginge. a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) (at cited word) A skew'd horse, one of two colours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). skewedadj.² /skjuːd/ Etymology: < skew n.³ or skew v.² 1. a. Set obliquely or aslant; skew. Also in combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] embelifc1400 inclining?c1400 oblique?a1425 inclinate?1440 hieldingc1480 inclined?a1500 bias1551 overthwart1594 sidelong1598 squinty1598 skew1609 traverse1609 skewed1611 obliquous1614 squint1703 inclinated1751 slanting1768 slanted1770 slant1776 aslant1791 diagonal1796 rakish1830 slantindicular1832 slantwise1856 slaunchways1913 slanty1928 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vi. 4 (margin) Windowes broad within and narrow without; or skewed and closed. a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) iv. i. 39 As I live I am asham'd, this wench has reach'd me,..This skew'd eyde Carren. 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 109/1 It is in the construction of railroads that the skewed arch meets with its most important application. 1895 C. R. B. Barrett Surrey iii. 95 The eastern half of the chancel is skewed internally. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1960 Economist 25 June 1330/1 This triple structure [of a book] is a magnificent achievement,..but its magnificence is..skewed at its foundation... The skewness derives from Professor Hayek's perfectly legitimate definition of freedom. 1977 New Yorker 17 Oct. 78/2 She quickly came to share her husband's feelings about the skewed state of the world. 2. a. Statistics. = skew adj. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > relating to distribution > not normal skew1895 non-normal1896 non-central1928 skewed1940 1940 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 30 259 A difficult test tends to produce a positively skewed score-scatter. 1953 E. Mayr et al. Methods & Princ. Systematic Zool. vii. 134 A skewed curve is a curve in which the mode..is above or below the mean. 1977 Lancet 5 Feb. 311/1 In our hands, the crude breath-test results are highly skewed, but logarithmic transformation does produce a distribution which is indistinguishable from normal. 1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. iii. 22 The distribution shown in Fig. 3.1 is skewed to the right; i.e. it has more values to the right of its highest frequency (mode) than to the left. b. Of a sample or data: biased, not representative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [adjective] > serving as a sample > not representative skewed1975 1975 Amer. Speech 1973 48 6 Since the data used for restructuring would have been external and skewed, one would expect attempts at restructuring to be only partially successful. 1977 Times 12 May 23/2 Quotas..are at present heavily skewed in favour of those countries which were economically powerful when the [International Monetary] Fund was set up. 3. Distorted; shifted in emphasis or character. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [adjective] > represented imperfectly garbleda1757 misrepresented1796 oversold1879 misdescribed1891 skewed1935 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > misused > misapplied > perverted perverted1844 skewed1980 1935 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. iii. 105 A range of frequency where the skewed phoneme t in ts would be most stable. 1965 E. I. Haugen Norwegian Eng. Dict. 40/1 The typical East Norwegian (Oslo) [vowel] system is markedly skewed (in the same direction as Swedish)... The whole system has undergone a counterclockwise movement. 1980 Nature 17 Jan. 234/1 Critics..argued that the military control of research meant such research would inevitably be skewed towards the production of weapons of mass destruction. 1981 Time 7 Dec. 79/2 The wildness of the cat, its..skewed version of reality. 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