ALL meanings of skewer
skew·er
S s - noun skewer stick for cooking kebabs 1
- transitive verb skewer cookery: put on a skewer 1
- transitive verb skewer pierce through 1
- noun skewer an oblique movement, direction, or position. 1
- noun skewer Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely. 1
- verb with object skewer to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely. 1
- verb with object skewer 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 skewer to distort; depict unfairly. 1
- verb without object skewer to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course. 1
- verb without object skewer to look obliquely; squint. 1
- adjective skewer having an oblique direction or position; slanting. 1
- adjective skewer having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing. 1
- adjective skewer Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate. 1
- adjective skewer (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 skewer Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness. 1
- countable noun skewer A skewer is a long metal pin which is used to hold pieces of food together during cooking. 0
- verb skewer If you skewer something, you push a long, thin, pointed object through it. 0
- noun skewer a long pin for holding meat in position while being cooked, etc 0
- noun skewer a similar pin having some other function 0
- noun skewer a tactical manoeuvre in which an attacked man is made to move and expose another man to capture 0
- verb skewer to drive a skewer through or fasten with a skewer 0
- noun skewer a long pin used to hold meat together while cooking 0
- noun skewer a similar but longer pin used as a brochette 0
- noun skewer any of several things shaped or used like a meat skewer 0
- verb transitive skewer to fasten or pierce with or as with skewers 0