skew
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French escuer, eskiuer, northern variants of eschuer, eschiver, eschever.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
skew (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).
Translations[edit]
neither perpendicular nor parallel
Verb[edit]
skew (third-person singular simple present skews, present participle skewing, simple past and past participle skewed)
- (transitive) To change or alter in a particular direction.
- A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
- (transitive) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive) To throw or hurl obliquely.
- (intransitive) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
- L'Estrange
- Child, you must walk straight, without skewing.
- L'Estrange
- (intransitive) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
- (intransitive) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Flanders to this entry?)
Translations[edit]
to change or alter in a particular direction
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Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
skew (plural skews)
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
Adverb[edit]
skew (comparative more skew, superlative most skew)
- Awry; obliquely; askew.
