| 单词 | skew |
| 释义 | skew (once / 7534 pages) vadj To skew is to turn or place at an angle. When you build a house of cards, you must slightly angle, or skew each card, so structure will stand up. From the Middle English skewen ("swerve"), this verb was born to describe things in the physical world. Nowadays, though, we encounter it more informally: If you're in advertising, you might skew (target, aim) your commercials toward a particular demographic. Even before that, you may collect some statistical data on your intended audience, and then make sure that data is accurate, because bad or irrelevant info might skew (distort, inaccurately depict) the results of your research. WORD FAMILYskew: skewed, skewing, skewness, skews USAGE EXAMPLESThreshold isn’t the only problem; mainstream imprints at big publishers already skew male and very, very white. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) There is no point in playing in Week 17 when important starters are unavailable and the results become skewed. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) On the basis of a skewed legal analysis that ignored pre-1967 Jewish claims, President Jimmy Carter called the settlements illegal. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) 1v turn or place at an angle the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed Ant|Hyper adjust, align, aline, line up place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight reorient set or arrange in a new or different determinate position 2adj having an oblique or slanting direction or position the picture was skew Syn skewed inclined at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position |
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