skew
(skyōō)
[Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways, from Old North French eskiuer, of Germanic origin.]
verb: skewed, skew·ing, skews.
intransitive verb
- To take an oblique course or direction.
- To look obliquely or sideways.
transitive verb
- To turn or place at an angle.
- To give a bias to; distort.
adjective
- Placed or turned to one side; asymmetrical.
- Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
- Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
- Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
- Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.
noun
- An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.
derivatives
- skeẃness
- noun