Skew

[skjuː] or [skju]

Definition

(verb.) turn or place at an angle; 'the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed'.

(adj.) having an oblique or slanting direction or position; 'the picture was skew' .

Checker: Nicole--From WordNet

Definition

(adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.

(a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.

(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.

(v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.

(v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.

(v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

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

(adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.

Typist: Owen

Definition

adj. oblique: intersecting a road river &c. not at right angles as a bridge.—adv. awry: obliquely.—v.t. to turn aside.—n. a deviation a mistake: a squint: (archit.) the sloping top of a buttress slanting off against a wall.—ns. Skew′-arch an arch standing obliquely on its abutments; Skew′-back (archit.) the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.—adj. Skew′-bald spotted irregularly piebald.—n. Skew′-bridge a bridge having its arch or arches set obliquely on its abutments as when a railway crosses a road &c. at an oblique angle.—adjs. Skewed distorted; Skew-gee′ (coll.) crooked.—n. Skew′-wheel a bevel-wheel with teeth formed obliquely on the rim.

Typist: Nora