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skew  (sky)

v. skewed, skew·ing, skews

v.intr.

1. To take an oblique course or direction.

2. To look obliquely or sideways.

v.tr.

1. To turn or place at an angle.

2. To give a bias to; distort.

adj.

1. Placed or turned to one side; asymmetrical.

2. Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.

3. Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.

4.

a. Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.

b. Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.

n.

An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.

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[Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways, from Old North French eskiuer, of Germanic origin.]

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skewness n.

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skew [skjuː]

adj

1. placed in or turning into an oblique position or course

2. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) Machinery 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

3. (Mathematics) Maths

a.  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

b.  (of a curve) not lying in a plane

4. (Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal

5. distorted or biased

n

1. an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position

2. (Psychology) Psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant

vb

1. to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction

2. (intr) to look sideways; squint

3. (tr) to place at an angle

4. (tr) to distort or bias

[from Old Norman French escuer to shun, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch schuwen to avoid]

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skew  (sky)

A transformation of coordinates in which one coordinate is displaced in one direction in proportion to its distance from a coordinate plane or axis. A rectangle, for example, that undergoes skew is transformed into a parallelogram. Also called shear.

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	skew - turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed" reorient - set or arrange in a new or different determinate position; "Orient the house towards the South" align, aline, adjust, line up - place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table"
Adj.	1.	skew - having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" skewed inclined - at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane"

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skew

verb distort, slant, misrepresent, colour, twist, weigh, bias, falsify This figure is skewed because much of the work still hasn't been done.

Translations

skew [skjuː]

A. N to be on the skew → estar desviado, estar sesgado

B. ADJ → sesgado, oblicuo, torcido

C. VT → sesgar, desviar

D. VI (also to skew round) → desviarse, ponerse al sesgo, torcerse

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skew [ˈskjuː]

n
on the skew → de travers, en biais

adj → de travers

vt (= distort) [+ results, statistics] → fausser

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skew

n on the skew → schief; (= on the diagonal) → schräg

adj (lit, fig) → schief; (= diagonal) → schräg

vt (= turn round) → umdrehen; (= make crooked) → krümmen; (fig: = distort) → verzerren

vi the car skewed off the road → der Wagen kam von der Straße ab; the ball skews to the right → der Ball hat einen Rechtsdrall

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skew [skjuː]

1. adj → storto/a
skew distribution (Math) → distribuzione f asimmetrica
skew lines (Math) → rette fpl sghembe

2. vt to be skewed → essere inclinato/a or storto/a

3. n (Brit) on the skew → storto/a, di traverso

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skew

adj skew [skjuː]

not straight or symmetrical. skeef مائِل кос šikmý skæv schief λοξός, ασύμμετρος torcido viltune كج vino de travers נָטוּי टेढ़ा kos, kriv ferde tidak lurus skáhallur, skakkur obliquo, storto 斜めの 비스듬한 kreivas, asimetriškas greizs; šķībs tidak lurus scheef skjev, usymmetrisk ukośny enviesado oblic косой; асимметричный šikmý poševen iskrivljen sned, skev เอียง eğri, eğik 歪斜的 косий; асиметричний اریبی ، ترچھا nghiêng, xiên, lệch 歪斜的

v

to make or be distorted, not straight. verskeef مُنْحَرِف изкривявам zkřivit (se) gøre skæv schief machen/sein λοξεύω torcer viltu pöörama, moonutatud olema كج رفتن vääristellä, vääristyä fausser; biaiser לְהָטוֹת टेढा़ या विकृत करना nakositi, naheriti ferdít; ferdévé tesz membengkok skekkja distorcere, travisare; (mettere di traverso) ゆがめる 비스듬하게 하다 iškreipti, iškrypti sagriezt; sašķiebt; sagriezties; sašķiebties membengkok (doen) scheef zijn fordreie, gjøre/være skjev przekrzywiać, odchylać się enviesar a strâmba; a deforma искривлять(ся), перекашивать(ся) zošikmiť, vychýliť popačiti iskriviti göra (vara) sned (skev) ทำให้ไม่ตรง eğril(t)mek 使歪斜，變歪斜 відхилятися; перекошувати(ся) آڑا کرنا یا ترچھا đi nghiêng, bóp méo 扭曲