skew
adjective
[ skjuː ]
• neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; askew; crooked.
• "his hat looked slightly skew"
• (of a pair of lines) neither parallel nor intersecting.
• (of a statistical distribution) not symmetrical.
skew
noun
• an oblique angle; a slant.
• a bias towards one particular group or subject.
• "the paper had a working-class skew"
• the state of not being symmetrical.
skew
verb
• suddenly change direction or position.
• "the car had skewed across the track"
• make biased or distorted in a way that is regarded as inaccurate, unfair, or misleading.
• "the curriculum is skewed towards the practical subjects"
• cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
• "the distributions were skewed to the right"
Origin:
late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘move obliquely’): shortening of Old Northern French eskiuwer, variant of Old French eschiver ‘eschew’. The adjective and noun (early 17th century) are from the verb.
on the skew
• neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; askew.
• "the whole frame is on the skew"
