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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024skew•ing (skyo̅o̅′ing),USA pronunciation n. - a process of removing excess gold leaf from a stamped surface.
- skewings, the gold leaf so removed.
- origin, originally uncertain 1850–55
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024skew /skyu/USA pronunciation v. - to turn aside or swerve:[no object]cars skewing off the road.
- to distort;
misrepresent:[~ + object]The accounting department skewed data and figures to show that the company was operating at a profit.
adj. - having a slanting direction or position.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024skew (skyo̅o̅),USA pronunciation v.i. - to turn aside or swerve;
take an oblique course. - to look obliquely;
squint.
v.t. - to give an oblique direction to;
shape, form, or cut obliquely. - Radio and Television, Slang Terms[Slang.]to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result;
slant:The television show is skewed to the young teenager. - to distort;
depict unfairly.
adj. - having an oblique direction or position;
slanting. - having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.:skew gearing.
- Mathematics(of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.
- (of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.
- Statistics(of a distribution) having skewness.
n. - an oblique movement, direction, or position.
- BuildingAlso called skew′ chis′el. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.
- Middle Dutch schuwen to get out of the way, shun, derivative of schu (Dutch schuw) shy1; (adjective, adjectival) derivative of the verb, verbal (probably influenced by askew); (noun, nominal) derivative of the verb, verbal and adjective, adjectival
- (verb, verbal) Middle English skewen to slip away, swerve 1350–1400
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: skew /skjuː/ adj - placed in or turning into an oblique position or course
- having a component that is at an angle to the main axis of an assembly or is in some other way asymmetrical: a skew bevel gear
- composed of or being elements that are neither parallel nor intersecting as, for example, two lines not lying in the same plane in a three-dimensional space
- (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal
- distorted or biased
n - an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position
vb - to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction
- (intransitive) to look sideways; squint
- (transitive) to distort or bias
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old Norman French escuer to shun, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch schuwen to avoid |