Skew (english) - Kamus SABDA

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TANDA HUBUNG
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive), Adjective

TANDA HUBUNG

skew

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb has 1 sense

skew(v = verb.change) - turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"

Antonym: align

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s
Something ----s something

Adjective has 1 sense

skew(s = adj.all) skewed - having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew"

Derived form noun skewness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

, adv. Array

Awry; obliquely; askew. [1913 Webster]

, a.

Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases. [1913 Webster]

Skew arch, an oblique arch. See under Oblique. -- Skew back. (Civil Engin.) (a) The course of masonry, the stone, or the iron plate, having an inclined face, which forms the abutment for the voussoirs of a segmental arch. (b) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame. -- Skew bridge. See under Bridge, n. -- Skew curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Skew gearing, or Skew bevel gearing (Mach.), toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the faces of the gears. -- Skew surface (Geom.), a ruled surface such that in general two successive generating straight lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface. -- Skew symmetrical determinant (Alg.), a determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below.

, n.

A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place. [1913 Webster]

, v. i.

To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. [1913 Webster]
To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [1913 Webster]
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]

, v. t. Array

To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. [1913 Webster]
To throw or hurl obliquely. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 oblique, slanting, set askew.
2 Math. a lying in three dimensions (skew curve). b (of lines) not coplanar. c (of a statistical distribution) not symmetrical.
--n.
1 a slant.
2 Statistics skewness.
--v.
1 tr. make skew.
2 tr. distort.
3 intr. move obliquely.
4 intr. twist.

Idiom

on the skew askew. skew arch (or bridge) an arch (or bridge) with the line of the arch not at right angles to the abutment. skew chisel a chisel with an oblique edge. skew-eyed Brit. squinting. skew gear a gear consisting of two cog-wheels having non-parallel, non-intersecting axes. skew-whiff Brit. colloq. askew.

Derivative

skewness n.

Etymology

ONF eskiu(w)er (v.) = OF eschuer: see ESCHEW

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THESAURUS

aberrancy, aberration, agee, agee-jawed, angle, angle off, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, bear off, bend, bent, bias, branching off, catawampous, catawamptious, circuitousness, cockeyed, corner, crook, crooked, curve, declination, deflect, deflected, deflective, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diffract, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, digression, dip, disbalance, discursion, disequilibrate, disparate, disperse, dispersed, disproportionate, distort, distorted, divagate, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, edge, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flectional, flexed, go crabwise, go sideways, goggle, hairpin, ill-matched, ill-sorted, inadequate, indirection, inflective, insufficient, irregular, lateral, lateralize, look asquint, lurch, make leeway, mismatched, oblique, obliquity, odd, out of proportion, overbalance, pererration, pull, rambling, refract, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scatter, scattered, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sideslip, sidestep, sidle, skew-jawed, skewed, skid, slant, slaunchways, slide, slip, slue, squinch, squint, squint the eye, squinting, straying, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, throw off balance, turn, turning, twist, unbalance, unequal, uneven, upset, variation, veer, wamper-jawed, wandering, warp, wry, yaw, yaw-ways, zigzag