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S0447400 (skyo͞o)v. skewed, skew·ing, skews v.tr.1. To turn or place at an angle: skew the cutting edge of a plane.2. To give a bias to; distort: The use of a limited sample skewed the findings of the study.v.intr.1. To take an oblique course or direction.2. To look obliquely or sideways.3. To display a statistical tendency toward: a television program that skews toward teenagers.adj.1. Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.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.

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

skew′ness n.

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(skjuː) adj1. placed in or turning into an oblique position or course2. (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 spaceb. (of a curve) not lying in a plane4. (Statistics) (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal5. distorted or biasedn6. an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position7. (Psychology) psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliantvb8. to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction9. (intr) to look sideways; squint10. (tr) to place at an angle11. (tr) to distort or bias[C14: from Old Norman French escuer to shun, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch schuwen to avoid]

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v.i. 1. to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course. 2. to look askance; squint. v.t. 3. to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely. 4. to distort; misrepresent: to skew data. adj. 5. having an oblique direction or position; slanting. 6. having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing. 7. Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness. n. 8. an oblique movement, direction, or position. 9. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely. [1350–1400; (v.) Middle English: to slip away, swerve < Middle Dutch schuwen to get out of the way, shun]

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Past participle: skewed
Gerund: skewing

Imperative
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Present
I skew
you skew
he/she/it skews
we skew
you skew
they skew

Preterite
I skewed
you skewed
he/she/it skewed
we skewed
you skewed
they skewed

Present Continuous
I am skewing
you are skewing
he/she/it is skewing
we are skewing
you are skewing
they are skewing

Present Perfect
I have skewed
you have skewed
he/she/it has skewed
we have skewed
you have skewed
they have skewed

Past Continuous
I was skewing
you were skewing
he/she/it was skewing
we were skewing
you were skewing
they were skewing

Past Perfect
I had skewed
you had skewed
he/she/it had skewed
we had skewed
you had skewed
they had skewed

Future
I will skew
you will skew
he/she/it will skew
we will skew
you will skew
they will skew

Future Perfect
I will have skewed
you will have skewed
he/she/it will have skewed
we will have skewed
you will have skewed
they will have skewed

Future Continuous
I will be skewing
you will be skewing
he/she/it will be skewing
we will be skewing
you will be skewing
they will be skewing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been skewing
you have been skewing
he/she/it has been skewing
we have been skewing
you have been skewing
they have been skewing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been skewing
you will have been skewing
he/she/it will have been skewing
we will have been skewing
you will have been skewing
they will have been skewing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been skewing
you had been skewing
he/she/it had been skewing
we had been skewing
you had been skewing
they had been skewing

Conditional
I would skew
you would skew
he/she/it would skew
we would skew
you would skew
they would skew

Past Conditional
I would have skewed
you would have skewed
he/she/it would have skewed
we would have skewed
you would have skewed
they would have skewed

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"skewedinclined - at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane"

skew

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

skew

verb1. To turn aside sharply from a straight course:chop, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, veer.Nautical: yaw.2. To direct (material) to the interests of a particular group:bias, slant.Informal: angle.

Translations

扭曲歪斜歪斜的

skew

(skjuː) adjective not straight or symmetrical. 歪斜的 verb to make or be distorted, not straight. 歪斜，扭曲

skew

1. Machinery having a component that is at an angle to the main axis of an assembly or is in some other way asymmetrical 2. Mathsa. 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 3. Psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant

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see MEASURES OF DISPERSION.

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[skyü] (computer science) In character recognition, a condition arising at the read station whereby a character or a line of characters appears in a “twisted” manner in relation to a real or imaginary horizontal baseline. (electronics) The deviation of a received facsimile frame from rectangularity due to lack of synchronism between scanner and recorder; expressed numerically as the tangent of the angle of this deviation. The degree of nonsynchronism of supposedly parallel bits when bit-coded characters are read from magnetic tape. (mechanical engineering) Gearing whose shafts are neither interesecting nor parallel. (science and technology) Deviating from rectangularity or a straight line.

kneeler, kneestone, skew

kneeler, 1: K 1. A building stone which is sloped on top and flat on the bottom, as the stone that supports inclined coping on the slope of a gable. Also see footstone; gable springer. 2. The stone that breaks the horizontal-vertical unit-and-joint pattern of a normal masonry wall to begin the curve or angle of an arch or vault.

skew

(1) The misalignment of a document or punch card in the feed tray or hopper that prohibits it from being scanned or read properly.

(2) In facsimile, the difference in rectangularity between the received and transmitted page.

(3) In communications, a change of timing or phases in a transmission signal.

(4) See cylinder skew and head skew.

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verb distort

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verb to turn aside sharply from a straight course

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verb to direct (material) to the interests of a particular group

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verb turn or place at an angle

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adj having an oblique or slanting direction or position

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