skew

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Verb

1. To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
2. To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
3. To bias or distort in a particular direction.
   • A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
4. To hurl or throw.
5. To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
6. To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
7. To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

Adjective

1. Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
   • a skew arch
2. Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
3. Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

Adverb

1. Askew, obliquely; awry.

Noun

1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
2. An oblique or sideways movement.
3. A squint or sidelong glance.
4. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
5. A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
6. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
7. A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
8. A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

Noun

1. 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; a skew-corbel.
2. The coping of a gable.
3. One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

Noun

1. A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.

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