skew
Something that has an oblique or slanted positionSomething that has an oblique or slanted position.
» Something is being skewed in the data.
Значение
значений: 12Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
An oblique or sideways movement.
A squint or sidelong glance.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
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.
(Шотландия)The coping of a gable.
(Cornwall)A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
(устаревшее)One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
Примеры
предложений: 5Something is being skewed in the data.
American politics as a whole are skewed to the right.
They were, though, badly wrong because their samples were skewed.
His wig is skew.
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Many straight people with monkeypox symptoms aren't being tested because they don't fit the profile, skewing the data in the process.
Происхождение
The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliThe verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
From Middle English skeu, skew (“stone with a sloping surface forming the slope of a gable, offset of a buttress, etc.”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman eschu, escuwe, eskeu, or Old Northern French eschieu, eskieu, eskiu, from Old French escu, escut, eschif (“a shield”) (modern French écu), from Latin scūtum (“a shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewH- (“to cover, protect”) or *skey- (“to cut, split”).
Perhaps from a Cornish word, though the closest Cornish word is kuas/cwas, which would require much phonological modification; thus, perhaps instead simply from the skewed angle wind may drive such rain to fall in.
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