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Definitions for Skewer

[1] a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
[2] any similar pin for fastening or holding an item in place.
[3] to fasten with or as if with a skewer.
[4] to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
[5] to look obliquely; squint.
[6] to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely.
[7] Slang . to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager.
[8] to distort; depict unfairly.
[9] having an oblique direction or position; slanting.
[10] having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing.
[11] Mathematics . (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.
[12] (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.
[13] Statistics . (of a distribution) having skewness.
[14] an oblique movement, direction, or position.
[15] Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.
[16] a long pin for holding meat in position while being cooked, etc
[17] a similar pin having some other function
[18] chess a tactical manoeuvre in which an attacked man is made to move and expose another man to capture
[19] (tr) to drive a skewer through or fasten with a skewer
[20] placed in or turning into an oblique position or course
[21] 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
[22] 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
[23] (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal
[24] distorted or biased
[25] an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position
[26] psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant
[27] to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction
[28] (intr) to look sideways; squint
[29] (tr) to place at an angle
[30] (tr) to distort or bias

Words related to Skewer

lance, spit, pin, pick, truss, brochette

Words nearby Skewer

skew lines, skew symmetry, skew-symmetric, skewback, skewbald, skewer, skewerwood, skewgee, skewing, skewness, skewwhiff

Origin of Skewer

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 Skewer

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, skewskew, skewer

Other words from Skewer

un·skew·ered , adjective
un·skewed , adjective

Word origin for Skewer

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

Synonyms for Skewer

brochette, lance, pick, pin, spit, truss