skew
Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain lineNeither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
» Something is being skewed in the data.
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3 senses(not comparable, usually)Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
a skew arch
schief, schräg, windschief
(not comparable, usually)Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
скрещивающиесяskreščivajuščijesja
(comparable, not comparable, usually)Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
Examples
5 sentencesSomething 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.
deSeine Perücke sitzt schief. — al_ex_an_der
Many straight people with monkeypox symptoms aren't being tested because they don't fit the profile, skewing the data in the process.
Translations
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Origin
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.
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Forms
skewer/more skew, skewest/most skewSynonyms
2 synonyms- having an oblique or slanting direction or position:skewed
Word family
22 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.