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Definitions for Skew

[1] to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
[2] to look obliquely; squint.
[3] to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely.
[4] Slang . to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager.
[5] to distort; depict unfairly.
[6] having an oblique direction or position; slanting.
[7] having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing.
[8] Mathematics . (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.
[9] (of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.
[10] Statistics . (of a distribution) having skewness.
[11] an oblique movement, direction, or position.
[12] Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.
[13] placed in or turning into an oblique position or course
[14] 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
[15] maths 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 (of a curve) not lying in a plane
[16] (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal
[17] distorted or biased
[18] an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position
[19] psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant
[20] to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction
[21] (intr) to look sideways; squint
[22] (tr) to place at an angle
[23] (tr) to distort or bias

Words related to Skew

bias, misrepresent, alter, slant, doctor, color, curve, contort, twist, warp, fake, fudge, falsify, change, bend, misshape

Words nearby Skew

sketchbook, sketchpad, sketchy, skete, skeuomorph, skew, skew arch, skew field, skew lines, skew symmetry, skew-symmetric

Origin of Skew

1350–1400; (v.) Middle English skewen to slip away, swerve < Middle Dutch schuwen to get out of the way, shun, derivative of schu (Dutch schuw ) shy1; (adj.) derivative of the v. (probably influenced by askew); (noun) derivative of the v. and adj.

Words that may be confused with Skew

skew, skewer

Other words from Skew

un·skewed , adjective

Word origin for Skew

C14: from Old Norman French escuer to shun, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch schuwen to avoid

Synonyms for Skew

alter, bias, misrepresent, slant, bend, change, color, contort, curve, doctor, fake, falsify, fudge, twist, warp, misshape, throw off balance