SKEW

skew

Noun

  1. A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

Verb

  1. To change or alter in a particular direction.
    A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
  2. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  3. To throw or hurl obliquely.
  4. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
  5. To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
  6. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

Adjective

  1. Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).

Adverb

  1. Awry; obliquely; askew.


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