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skew       (skyōō)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   skewed, skew·ing, skews

v.   intr.
  1. To take an oblique course or direction.
  2. To look obliquely or sideways.

v.   tr.
  1. To turn or place at an angle.
  2. To give a bias to; distort.

adj.  
  1. Placed or turned to one side; asymmetrical.
  2. Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
  3. Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
    1. Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
    2. Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.

n.   An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.


[Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways, from Old North French eskiuer, of Germanic origin.]

skew'ness n.
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skewed

adjective
having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" [syn: skew] 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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