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Substantiivi

1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
2. (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
3. (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.
4. (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
5. An oblique or sideways movement.
6. (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
7. A squint or sidelong glance.
8. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
9. 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.
10. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
11. (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.
12. (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
2. (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
3. (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
4. (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
5. (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
6. (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
7. (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

Adverbi

1. (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

Adjektiivi

1. (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
2. (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
3. (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.