skew

1. (v) (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. 2. (v) (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical. 3. (v) (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction. 4. (v) (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw. 5. (v) (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely. 6. (v) (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse. 7. (v) (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. 8. (adj) (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew. 9. (adj) (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel. 10. (adj) (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean. 11. (n) Something that has an oblique or slanted position. 12. (n) An oblique or sideways movement. 13. (n) A squint or sidelong glance. 14. (n) A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking. 15. (n) 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. 16. (n) A bias or distortion in a particular direction. 17. (n) (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. 18. (n) (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness. 19. (n) (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. 20. (n) (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable. 21. (n) (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist. 22. (adv) (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry. 23. (n) (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.