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skew

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1. skew - Noun

2. skew - Adjective

3. skew - Verb

4. skew - Adverb

6. skew - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Awry; obliquely; askew.

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

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.

To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.

To start aside; to shy, as a horse.

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

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

To throw or hurl obliquely.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Confusion exists in the map, not in the territory. Unanswerable questions do not mark places where magic enters the universe. They mark places where your mind runs skew to reality. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys. Duncan Jones

the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed Source: Internet

the picture was skew Source: Internet

As with other states, Mr. Mitchell said mailed votes tended to skew Democratic, whereas in-person voters were more likely to be Republican. Source: Internet

Cross section of regular tetrahedron A central cross section of a regular tetrahedron is a square The two skew perpendicular opposite edges of a regular tetrahedron define a set of parallel planes. Source: Internet

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