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To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

(statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.

To bias or distort in a particular direction.

(Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.

To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.

To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.

To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.

(geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

(statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

(rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

Something that has an oblique or slanted position.

An oblique or sideways movement.

A squint or sidelong glance.

A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.

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.

A bias or distortion in a particular direction.

(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.

(statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

(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.

(chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.

(architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.