skew
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- 2.
(transitive)To bias or distort in a particular direction.
A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
- 3.
(Northumbria, Yorkshire, transitive)To hurl or throw.
Đồng nghĩa: bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
- 4.
(intransitive)To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- 5.
(intransitive)To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- 6.
(intransitive)To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable, usually)Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
a skew arch
- 2.
(not comparable, usually)(not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- 3.
(comparable, not comparable, usually)(comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
(rare)Askew, obliquely; awry.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- 2.
An oblique or sideways movement.
- 3.
A squint or sidelong glance.
- 4.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- 5.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- 6.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- 7.
(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- 8.
(statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
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(architecture) 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; a skew-corbel.
- 10.
(Scotland)(chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- 11.
(obsolete)(architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
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(Cornwall)(chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
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The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape), from escuer, variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (to escape, flee; to avoid) (modern esquiver), from *skiuhan (to dread; to avoid, shun), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (to frighten). The English word is cognate with esquiu, skæv (> skjev), scheef, skeiv (crooked, lopsided;