skewing

[skyoo-ing]

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noun

a process of removing excess gold leaf from a stamped surface.

skewings, the gold leaf so removed.

Origin of skewing

First recorded in 1850–55; origin uncertain

skew

[skyoo]

verb (used without object)

to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.

to look obliquely; squint.

verb (used with object)

to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely.

Slang. to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager.

to distort; depict unfairly.

adjective

having an oblique direction or position; slanting.

having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing.

Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.

(of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.

Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness.

noun

an oblique movement, direction, or position.

Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.

Origin of skew

1350–1400; (v.) Middle English skewen to slip away, swerve < Middle Dutch schuwen to get out of the way, shun, derivative of schu (Dutch schuw) shy¹; (adj.) derivative of the v. (probably influenced by askew); (noun) derivative of the v. and adj.

Related formsun·skewed, adjective

Can be confusedskew skewer

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Related Words for skewing

bias, misrepresent, alter, slant, doctor, color, curve, contort, twist, warp, fake, fudge, falsify, change, bend, misshape

Examples from the Web for skewing

Contemporary Examples of skewing

Now Cantlie appears to accuse the Western media of skewing coverage of the month-long siege.
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The older group smoked more, had more strokes and heart attacks and in all ways was inferior, resulting in a skewing of the data.
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Labor unions have long been a strong political force in Michigan, skewing heavily toward Democrats.
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December 12, 2012
“You think of text as skewing to a younger demographic—which is true,” Manis explained in a phone call Tuesday afternoon.
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November 27, 2010

Historical Examples of skewing

"Here is something to make you a winter dress," said I, skewing her the silk.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Calm yourself, and don't be afraid of my skewing you any violence; that would suit your game too well.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

British Dictionary definitions for skewing

skew

adjective

placed in or turning into an oblique position or course

machinery having a component that is at an angle to the main axis of an assembly or is in some other way asymmetricala skew bevel gear

maths

composed of or being elements that are neither parallel nor intersecting as, for example, two lines not lying in the same plane in a three-dimensional space
(of a curve) not lying in a plane

(of a statistical distribution) not having equal probabilities above and below the mean; non-normal

distorted or biased

noun

an oblique, slanting, or indirect course or position

psychol the system of relationships in a family in which one parent is extremely dominating while the other parent tends to be meekly compliant

verb

to take or cause to take an oblique course or direction

(intr) to look sideways; squint

(tr) to place at an angle

(tr) to distort or bias

Word Origin for skew

C14: from Old Norman French escuer to shun, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch schuwen to avoid

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Word Origin and History for skewing

skew

late 15c., "to turn aside" (intransitive), from Old North French eskiuer "shy away from, avoid," Old French eschiver (see eschew). Transitive sense of "turn (something) aside" is from 1570s. Meaning "depict unfairly" first recorded 1872, on notion of being "give oblique direction to," hence "to distort, to make slant." Statistical sense dates from 1929. Related: Skewed; skewing. The adjectival meaning "slanting, turned to one side" is recorded from c.1600, from the verb; noun meaning "slant, deviation" first attested 1680s.

skewing in Science

skew

[skyōō]

A transformation of coordinates in which one coordinate is displaced in one direction in proportion to its distance from a coordinate plane or axis. A rectangle, for example, that undergoes skew is transformed into a parallelogram. Also called shear