SKEW

skew, skewed

(adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position; “the picture was skew”

skew

(verb) turn or place at an angle; “the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

skew (third-person singular simple present skews, present participle skewing, simple past and past participle skewed)

(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

Antonym: unskew

(statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.

(transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.

(transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.

Synonym: Thesaurus:throw

(intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.

(intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.

(intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

Adjective

skew (not generally comparable, comparative skewer or more skew, superlative skewest or most skew)

(not comparable) Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.

(not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

(comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

Adverb

skew (comparative more skew, superlative most skew)

(rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

Noun

skew (plural skews)

Something that has an oblique or slanted position.

An oblique or sideways movement.

A bias or distortion in a particular direction.

(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.

(statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

Etymology 2

Noun

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; a skew-corbel.

(chiefly, Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.

(architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

Notes

Source: Wiktionary

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Skew, adv. Etym: [Cf. D. scheef. Dan. ski, Sw. skef, Icel. skeifr, G. schief, also E. shy, a. & v. i.]

Definition: Awry; obliquely; askew.

Skew, a.

Definition: Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases. Skew arch, an oblique arch. See under Oblique.

– Skew back. (Civil Engin.) (a) The course of masonry, the stone, or the iron plate, having an inclined face, which forms the abutment for the voussoirs of a segmental arch. (b) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame.

– Skew bridge. See under Bridge, n.

– Skew curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under Curve.

– Skew gearing, or Skew bevel gearing (Mach.), toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the faces of the gears.

– Skew surface (Geom.), a ruled surface such that in general two successive generating straight lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface.

– Skew symmetrical determinant (Alg.), a determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4 -1 71 8 -2-7 2 1

Note: This requires that the numbers in the diagonal from the upper left to lower right corner be zeros. A like determinant in which the numbers in the diagonal are not zeros is a skew determinant, as in (2), above.

Skew, n. (Arch.)

Definition: A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

Skew, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Skewing.]

1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. Child, you must walk straight, without skewing. L'Estrange.

2. To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]

3. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. Beau & Fl.

Skew, v. t. Etym: [See Skew, adv.]

1. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

2. To throw or hurl obliquely.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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