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ALL meanings of skew

skew
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  • abbreviation SKEW slant 1
  • transitive verb skew distort 1
  • transitive verb skew statistics: distort 1
  • abbreviation SKEW slanted 1
  • adjective skew statistics: distorted 1
  • noun skew distortion, slant 1
  • intransitive verb skew change direction, slant 1
  • verb without object skew to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course. 1
  • verb without object skew to look obliquely; squint. 1
  • verb with object skew to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely. 1
  • verb with object skew Slang. to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager. 1
  • verb with object skew to distort; depict unfairly. 1
  • adjective skew having an oblique direction or position; slanting. 1
  • adjective skew having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing. 1
  • adjective skew Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate. 1
  • adjective skew (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. 1
  • adjective skew Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness. 1
  • noun skew an oblique movement, direction, or position. 1
  • noun skew Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely. 1
  • verb skew If something is skewed, it is changed or affected to some extent by a new or unusual factor, and so is not correct or normal. 0
  • adjective skew placed in or turning into an oblique position or course 0
  • adjective skew having a component that is at an angle to the main axis of an assembly or is in some other way asymmetrical 0
  • adjective skew 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 0
  • adjective skew (of a curve) not lying in a plane 0
  • adjective skew (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal 0
  • adjective skew distorted or biased 0
  • noun skew an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position 0
  • noun skew the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant 0
  • verb skew to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction 0
  • verb skew to look sideways; squint 0
  • verb skew to place at an angle 0
  • verb skew to distort or bias 0
  • intransitive verb skew to take a slanting or oblique course or direction; swerve or twist 0
  • intransitive verb skew to squint or glance sideways (at) 0
  • verb transitive skew to make slanting or oblique; set at a slant 0
  • verb transitive skew to bias, distort, or pervert 0
  • adjective skew turned aside or to one side; slanting; oblique 0
  • adjective skew having a part or arrangement that is so turned, as in gearing having the shafts neither parallel nor intersecting 0
  • adjective skew not symmetrical 0
  • noun skew a slant or twist 0
  • noun skew a slanting part or movement 0
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