- to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely: In a crochet project, a slip stitch can skew the edge a bit if you use it to finish the final round.
- to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager.
- to distort; depict unfairly: When other researchers looked into the report, they found misrepresentation of data that skewed the evidence.
- to cause (a distribution) to have a disproportionate number of data points above or below the mean: The income categories for transit commuters were skewed toward higher incomes because the survey was only distributed through a phone app.
- to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course: The car skewed sharply to the right when it hit the patch of ice.
- to display a tendency in a particular direction: My reading skews toward nonfiction, which I suppose isn't that surprising for a historian.
- to be distorted or unfairly depicted: The narrative presented by the country's leading newspapers skews toward an account that fits the needs of the state.
- to look obliquely; squint.
- a tendency in a particular direction: Officials involved in budget-related discussions said that there was a skew towards social sector spending.
- an oblique movement, direction, or position.
- a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.
- having an oblique direction or position; slanting; sideways: The picture is square, but the angles of the trees give it a skew look.
- having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing.
- (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.
- (of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.
- (of a distribution) not symmetrical; having skewness.
- placed in or turning into an oblique position or course
- having a component that is at an angle to the main axis of an assembly or is in some other way asymmetrical
- maths
- composed of or being elements that are neither parallel nor intersecting as, for example, two lines not lying in the same plane in a three-dimensional space
- (of a curve) not lying in a plane
- (of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal
- distorted or biased
- an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position
- the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant
- to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction
- to look sideways; squint
- to place at an angle
- to distort or bias
