skew
pronunciation
How to pronounce skew in British English:
UK [skju:]
How to pronounce skew in American English:
US [skju]
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- Verb:
- turn or place at an angle
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- Adjective:
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
Word Origin
- skew
- skew: see eschew
- skew (v.)
- late 15c., "to turn aside" (intransitive), from Old North French eskiuer "shy away from, avoid," Old French eschiver (see eschew). Transitive sense of "turn (something) aside" is from 1570s. Meaning "depict unfairly" first recorded 1872, on notion of being "give oblique direction to," hence "to distort, to make slant." Statistical sense dates from 1929. Related: Skewed; skewing. The adjectival meaning "slanting, turned to one side" is recorded from c. 1600, from the verb; noun meaning "slant, deviation" first attested 1680s.
Example
- 1. That can sometimes skew research results .
- 2. Rather than rebalancing , the world economy in the immediate future will skew even more between a debt-ridden west and thrifty east .
- 3. Simply raising vtt may or may not create voltage margins necessary to sufficiently skew signals as required to meet minimum sample and hold times for increased bus frequencies .
- 4. Groups can kill our creativity , inspire us to work harder , allow us to slack off , skew our decision-making and make us clam up .