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Definition of skew in English: skewadjective skjuːskju 1Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; askew; crooked. his hat looked slightly skew Example sentencesExamples - I hope that he does say something a little off skew and controversial on the show to spice things up.
Synonyms crooked, awry, askew, lopsided, uneven, asymmetrical, to one side, off-centre, skewed, misaligned 2Mathematics
(of a pair of lines) neither parallel nor intersecting. - 2.1 (of a curve) not lying in a plane.
3Statistics
(of a statistical distribution) not symmetrical. Example sentencesExamples - Empirical data, however, did not always detect a statistically significant skew toward rare alleles in the allele frequency distribution.
- The sample odds ratio is limited at the lower end, since it cannot be negative, but not at the upper end, and so has a skew distribution.
noun skjuːskju 1An oblique angle; a slant. Example sentencesExamples - The most important effect of the skew in angle is the raised plateau of entrance court created in the eastern corner.
Synonyms slope, incline, tilt, ramp, gradient, pitch, angle, rake, cant, camber, skew, leaning, inclination, shelving, listing 2A bias towards one particular group or subject. the paper had a working-class skew Example sentencesExamples - In recent years we have seen more of a skew towards the High Arts and the Arts that people from more affluent suburbs tend to enjoy.
- The female skew was most evident during Saturday's opening ceremony rebroadcast, which attracted almost three-quarters of the female audience and 66 per cent of men.
- So a definite skew to the higher income households.
Synonyms misrepresentation, perversion, twisting, falsification, misreporting, misstatement, manipulation 3Statistics
mass noun The state of not being symmetrical. Example sentencesExamples - We used a log transformation for the alcohol problem index because of the strong positive skew of the variable.
- If there is no sex-ratio skew among nestlings, data regarding survival of hybrid males and females would be needed to explain the pattern noted by Bronson et al.
- The per capita income variable was log transformed to reduce positive skew.
- We see in the subsequent section that this fairly small skew from equal frequencies nonetheless yields a substantive potential for ‘nonstandard’ dynamical behavior.
- Although the variable of educational level was normally distributed in the sample, the variable of annual income showed a sharp positive skew.
verb skjuːskju 1no object, with adverbial Suddenly change direction or position. the car had skewed across the track Example sentencesExamples - Pryce did well to block his shot with his legs, but the ball skewed sideways for Mercer to crash it into the empty net.
Synonyms distort, misrepresent, change, alter, pervert, falsify, warp, put the wrong slant on, misinterpret, misconstrue, misstate, misquote, quote out of context, take out of context, misreport - 1.1 Twist or turn or cause to do this.
he skewed around in his saddle with object his leg was skewed in and pushed against the other one Synonyms curve, bend, veer, turn, bear, wind, twist, deviate, slew, sheer off, change course, drift, head
2with object Make biased or distorted in a way that is regarded as inaccurate, unfair, or misleading. the curriculum is skewed towards the practical subjects Example sentencesExamples - The Times is not alone for demonstrating again a ‘news judgment’ hopelessly skewed by liberal bias.
- Trade has been unfairly skewed in favour of rich nations for decades now, the idea is to start skewing it in the other direction.
- All the facts would be skewed and biased anyway.
- No-one is suggesting that all science funded by company money is skewed or biased or lacking independence.
- I mean, the idea that the press is skewed toward him on this is totally ridiculous.
- Finally, the income tax cuts accompanying the tax package were massively skewed towards upper-income earners.
- When consumers ‘vote’ with their dollars, the outcome will be skewed toward the preferences of those with more dollars.
- The legal system is skewed towards mothers and, as a result, some women abuse this for their own means, she claims.
- We devised the question sets to be, as far as possible, at the same level of difficulty in order not to bias or skew the overall results.
- You can count on us to find the answer, and to convey that information in an insulting, unfair and skewed manner.
- The poll is skewed toward likely voters, since it is reporting the attitudes of those who have already bothered to register.
- It may seem wrong to extol the virtues of the English but with such a large Lions touring party, it is always likely to be skewed towards the biggest nation with strength in depth.
- European understanding of our society, and of their own, is skewed by male-centered cultural biases.
- As one of our readers noted, that poll used a sample that was obviously skewed toward the Democrats, and thus shouldn't be taken too seriously.
- People think teachers are against tests but the curriculum is skewed into doing them and it skews the whole of the school year.
- Our sample is also skewed towards the educated.
- There are problems with the audience profile, Brown argues, which is skewed towards older males, and the predominance of imported programs.
- I had a work life and a family life, but I was skewed towards the work life.
- I like the way the whole thing is skewed towards the safety of our children, so no-one need focus too closely on the actual sinister censorious implications for consenting adults behind this initiative.
- While this article, in general, is very thorough, accurate and well-written, one sentence is inaccurate and inappropriately skews the potential for print Yellow Pages over the next five years.
Synonyms biased, prejudiced, partisan, one-sided, slanted, skewed, coloured, interested, parti pris, discriminatory, preferential, jaundiced 3Statistics
with object Cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical. the distributions were skewed to the right Example sentencesExamples - Additional segregating alleles are not helpful if their frequency distribution is highly skewed.
- The statistical data show the weight distribution is a highly skewed right distribution.
- The distributions are skewed, so the medians are better estimates of central tendency than the means are.
- The age distribution was moderately skewed, with no outliers.
- The overall phenotype frequency distribution was positively skewed.
Synonyms asymmetrical, unsymmetrical, uneven, unevenly balanced, unbalanced, off-balance, off-centre, unequal, askew, skew, skewed, squint, tilted, tilting, crooked, sloping, slanted, aslant, one-sided, out of true, out of line, to one side, awry
Phrases Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; askew. the whole frame is on the skew Example sentencesExamples - The fulcrum point on the skew is always the lower corner of the tool.
Synonyms slanting, slanted, sloping, at an angle, angled, diagonal, aslant, slant, slantwise, sloped, inclined, inclining, tilted, tilting, atilt, skew, on the skew, askew
Derivatives noun By taking variability skewness and curtosis values into account the non-parametric and parametric test options were evaluated. Example sentencesExamples - The skewness and kurtosis of the data were also calculated.
- Examination of indices of skewness suggested that the Internalizing and Aggressive Behavior t scores were normally distributed, thus meeting assumptions of multivariate analyses.
- The total alliance scores for men and women appeared to be in a fairly normal distribution, as estimates of skewness and tests of kurtosis failed to reach .8 and.1, respectively.
- The resulting sample appears highly representative and shows little skewness.
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb in the sense 'move obliquely'): shortening of Old Northern French eskiuwer, variant of Old French eschiver 'eschew'. The adjective and noun (early 17th century) are from the verb. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of skew in US English: skewadjectiveskjuskyo͞o 1Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; askew; crooked. his hat looked slightly skew Example sentencesExamples - I hope that he does say something a little off skew and controversial on the show to spice things up.
Synonyms crooked, awry, askew, lopsided, uneven, asymmetrical, to one side, off-centre, skewed, misaligned 2Mathematics
(of a pair of lines) neither parallel nor intersecting. - 2.1 (of a curve) not lying in a plane.
3Statistics
(of a statistical distribution) not symmetrical. Example sentencesExamples - Empirical data, however, did not always detect a statistically significant skew toward rare alleles in the allele frequency distribution.
- The sample odds ratio is limited at the lower end, since it cannot be negative, but not at the upper end, and so has a skew distribution.
nounskjuskyo͞o 1An oblique angle; a slant. Example sentencesExamples - The most important effect of the skew in angle is the raised plateau of entrance court created in the eastern corner.
Synonyms slope, incline, tilt, ramp, gradient, pitch, angle, rake, cant, camber, skew, leaning, inclination, shelving, listing - 1.1 A bias toward one particular group or subject.
the paper had a working-class skew Example sentencesExamples - The female skew was most evident during Saturday's opening ceremony rebroadcast, which attracted almost three-quarters of the female audience and 66 per cent of men.
- In recent years we have seen more of a skew towards the High Arts and the Arts that people from more affluent suburbs tend to enjoy.
- So a definite skew to the higher income households.
Synonyms misrepresentation, perversion, twisting, falsification, misreporting, misstatement, manipulation - 1.2Statistics The state of not being symmetrical.
Example sentencesExamples - We see in the subsequent section that this fairly small skew from equal frequencies nonetheless yields a substantive potential for ‘nonstandard’ dynamical behavior.
- The per capita income variable was log transformed to reduce positive skew.
- We used a log transformation for the alcohol problem index because of the strong positive skew of the variable.
- Although the variable of educational level was normally distributed in the sample, the variable of annual income showed a sharp positive skew.
- If there is no sex-ratio skew among nestlings, data regarding survival of hybrid males and females would be needed to explain the pattern noted by Bronson et al.
verbskjuskyo͞o [no object]1Suddenly change direction or position. the car had skewed across the track Example sentencesExamples - Pryce did well to block his shot with his legs, but the ball skewed sideways for Mercer to crash it into the empty net.
Synonyms distort, misrepresent, change, alter, pervert, falsify, warp, put the wrong slant on, misinterpret, misconstrue, misstate, misquote, quote out of context, take out of context, misreport - 1.1 Twist or turn or cause to do this.
he skewed around in his saddle with object his leg was skewed in and pushed against the other one Synonyms curve, bend, veer, turn, bear, wind, twist, deviate, slew, sheer off, change course, drift, head - 1.2with object Make biased or distorted in a way that is regarded as inaccurate, unfair, or misleading.
the curriculum is skewed toward the practical subjects Example sentencesExamples - As one of our readers noted, that poll used a sample that was obviously skewed toward the Democrats, and thus shouldn't be taken too seriously.
- I mean, the idea that the press is skewed toward him on this is totally ridiculous.
- You can count on us to find the answer, and to convey that information in an insulting, unfair and skewed manner.
- The poll is skewed toward likely voters, since it is reporting the attitudes of those who have already bothered to register.
- People think teachers are against tests but the curriculum is skewed into doing them and it skews the whole of the school year.
- No-one is suggesting that all science funded by company money is skewed or biased or lacking independence.
- Finally, the income tax cuts accompanying the tax package were massively skewed towards upper-income earners.
- I had a work life and a family life, but I was skewed towards the work life.
- I like the way the whole thing is skewed towards the safety of our children, so no-one need focus too closely on the actual sinister censorious implications for consenting adults behind this initiative.
- Our sample is also skewed towards the educated.
- The Times is not alone for demonstrating again a ‘news judgment’ hopelessly skewed by liberal bias.
- Trade has been unfairly skewed in favour of rich nations for decades now, the idea is to start skewing it in the other direction.
- When consumers ‘vote’ with their dollars, the outcome will be skewed toward the preferences of those with more dollars.
- While this article, in general, is very thorough, accurate and well-written, one sentence is inaccurate and inappropriately skews the potential for print Yellow Pages over the next five years.
- It may seem wrong to extol the virtues of the English but with such a large Lions touring party, it is always likely to be skewed towards the biggest nation with strength in depth.
- We devised the question sets to be, as far as possible, at the same level of difficulty in order not to bias or skew the overall results.
- There are problems with the audience profile, Brown argues, which is skewed towards older males, and the predominance of imported programs.
- European understanding of our society, and of their own, is skewed by male-centered cultural biases.
- The legal system is skewed towards mothers and, as a result, some women abuse this for their own means, she claims.
- All the facts would be skewed and biased anyway.
Synonyms biased, prejudiced, partisan, one-sided, slanted, skewed, coloured, interested, parti pris, discriminatory, preferential, jaundiced - 1.3Statistics with object Cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
Example sentencesExamples - The statistical data show the weight distribution is a highly skewed right distribution.
- The distributions are skewed, so the medians are better estimates of central tendency than the means are.
- The overall phenotype frequency distribution was positively skewed.
- The age distribution was moderately skewed, with no outliers.
- Additional segregating alleles are not helpful if their frequency distribution is highly skewed.
Synonyms asymmetrical, unsymmetrical, uneven, unevenly balanced, unbalanced, off-balance, off-centre, unequal, askew, skew, skewed, squint, tilted, tilting, crooked, sloping, slanted, aslant, one-sided, out of true, out of line, to one side, awry
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘move obliquely’): shortening of Old Northern French eskiuwer, variant of Old French eschiver ‘eschew’. The adjective and noun (early 17th century) are from the verb. |