Skew Definition
skyo͝o
skewed, skewing, skews
verb
skewed, skewing, skews
To make slanting or oblique; set at a slant.
Webster's New World
To turn or place at an angle.
Skew the cutting edge of a plane.
American Heritage
To bias, distort, or pervert.
Webster's New World
To take a slanting or oblique course or direction; swerve or twist.
Webster's New World
To squint or glance sideways (at)
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
adjective
Turned aside or to one side; slanting; oblique.
Webster's New World
Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
American Heritage
Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
American Heritage
Having a part or arrangement that is so turned, as in gearing having the shafts neither parallel nor intersecting.
Webster's New World
Not symmetrical.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
skews
A slant or twist.
Webster's New World
A slanting part or movement.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adverb
Awry; obliquely; askew.
Wiktionary
prefix
(mathematics) In some sense, the opposite of what it's attached to.
Wiktionary
Bent.
Wiktionary
Origin of Skew
Middle English skewen to escape, run sideways from Old North French eskiuer of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French escuer, eskiuer, northern variants of eschuer, eschiver, eschever.
From Wiktionary
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