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skew/English/adj: invalid uppercase tag General-American not in or uppercase_tags: {"categories": ["English adjectives", "English adverbs", "English countable nouns", "English doublets", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman", "English terms derived from Frankish", "English terms derived from Latin", "English terms derived from Middle English", "English terms derived from Old French", "English terms derived from Old Northern French", "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic", "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kewH-", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skey-", "English terms inherited from Middle English", "English terms with homophones", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "Middle English lemmas", "Middle English nouns", "Middle English terms borrowed from Old French", "Middle English terms derived from Latin", "Middle English terms derived from Old French", "Pages with 2 entries", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/uː", "Rhymes:English/uː/1 syllable", "Rhymes:Middle English/iu̯", "Rhymes:Middle English/iu̯/1 syllable", "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "Terms with Czech translations", "Terms with Danish translations", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Estonian translations", "Terms with Faroese translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Hungarian translations", "Terms with Italian translations", "Terms with Persian translations", "Terms with Polish translations", "Terms with Portuguese translations", "Terms with Romanian translations", "Terms with Russian translations", "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations", "Terms with Slovak translations", "Terms with Spanish translations", "Terms with Swedish translations", "enm:Atmosphere", "enm:Building materials", "enm:Weather"], "derived": [{"word": "clock skew"}, {"word": "skew arch"}, {"word": "skew back"}, {"word": "skew bevel"}, {"word": "skew bridge"}, {"word": "skew chisel"}, {"word": "skew curve"}, {"word": "skew factor"}, {"word": "skew field"}, {"word": "skew gearing"}, {"word": "skew bevel gearing"}, {"word": "skew-gee"}, {"word": "skew-Hermitian"}, {"word": "skew pivot-journal"}, {"word": "skew pulley"}, {"word": "skew-rolling mill"}, {"word": "skew spur wheel"}, {"word": "skew surface"}, {"word": "skew-symmetric"}, {"word": "skew symmetric"}, {"word": "skew symmetrical determinant"}, {"word": "skew-symmetry"}, {"word": "skew symmetry"}, {"word": "skew-T log-P diagram"}, {"word": "skew wheel"}, {"word": "skew whiff"}, {"word": "skew-whiff"}, {"word": "skew-whift"}, {"word": "skew whift"}, {"word": "skew wiff"}, {"word": "skew-wiff"}, {"word": "skew wift"}, {"word": "skew-wift"}], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "verb"}, "expansion": "verb", "name": "glossary"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "skeuen"}, "expansion": "Middle English skeuen", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro-nor", "3": "escuer"}, "expansion": "Old Northern French escuer", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "eskieuer, eskiuer, eskiuwer, eskuer", "otherforms": "1"}, "expansion": "[and other forms]", "name": "nb..."}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "eschuer"}, "expansion": "Old French eschuer", "name": "der"}, {"args": {"1": "fr", "2": "esquiver", "t": "to dodge (a blow), duck; 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The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.\nThe adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.", "forms": [{"form": "skewer", "tags": ["comparative"]}, {"form": "more skew", "tags": ["comparative"]}, {"form": "skewest", "tags": ["superlative"]}, {"form": "most skew", "tags": ["superlative"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "-", "2": "er", "3": "more"}, "expansion": "skew (not generally comparable, comparative skewer or more skew, superlative skewest or most skew)", "name": "en-adj"}], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [{"categories": ["English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples"], "examples": [{"text": "a skew arch", "type": "example"}, {"ref": "1698, Jo[hn] Keill, “Of the Perpendicular Position of the Axis of the Earth to the Plane of the Ecliptick”, in An Examination of Dr. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, →OCLC, page 78:", "text": "[O]ur earth which makes one in that airy fleet when it eſcaped ſo narrowly being ſhipwrackt in the great Deluge, was however ſo broken and diſordered that it loſt its equal poiſe and thereupon the centre of its gravity changing, one Pole became more inclined towards the Sun and the other more removed from it, in which ſkew poſture it hath ſtood ever ſince.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1745, J[ohn] T[heophilus] Desaguliers, “Lecture III”, in A Course of Experimental Philosophy, 2nd edition, volume I, W[illiam] Innys, T[homas] Longman and T. Shewell, and C. Hitch, […], and M. Senex, […], →OCLC, paragraph 78, page 124:", "text": "And this is done by cauſing the Threads of the Screw C D to take hold of the oblique or ſkew Teeth of the Wheel as c, and by continually turning the Wheel round to draw up a great Weight as W by means of the Rope which is wound on the Axis E F.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1749, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “Of the Most Singular and Strange Adventure that Befel Don Quixote in the Whole Course of This Famous History”, in [Peter Anthony] Motteux, transl., edited by [John] Ozell, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. 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Looking at it with the face towards the tunnel, when you are about 200 yards distant, the effect is very singular, as it appears to be a portion of the entrance thereto.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1898, J[ames] E[dward] Quibell, “The Earliest Tombs”, in El Kab (Egyptian Research Account, 1897), London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 3, column 1:", "text": "Their [the graves'] enclosure walls, within which several burials were found, were at right angles to the great wall of the town, and cut through the other graves (mastabas) which, though parallel to one another, were skew to the town walls.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:", "text": "The last crossing, immediately short of Keswick station, is an inverted bowstring girder bridge with a skew span of 120ft.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1992, Marianne Dieterich, Thomas Brandt, “Subjective Visual Vertical and Eye-head Coordination (Roll) with Brain Stem Lesions”, in Alain Berthoz, Werner Graf, Pierre Paul Vidal, editors, The Head-neck Sensory Motor System, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 640:", "text": "Ocular tilt reaction [...]—the triad of head tilt in roll, skew deviation of the eyes, and cyclorotation of the eyes towards the head tilt—may indicate a lesion induced deviation of the primary position of the vertical VOR [vestibulo-ocular reflex] in either peripheral otolithic or central vestibular brain stem disorders. 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A slope value less than 1 indicates that digits are less skewed as compared with the Benford condition.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "2016, Bettina Hüttenrauch, “Analysis of Data Augmentation KPIs”, in Targeting Using Augmented Data in Database Marketing: Decision Factors for Evaluating External Sources, Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler, →DOI, →ISBN, section 6.4.3 (Model Lift (Uniform)), page 199:", "text": "The skewest possible distribution is that in which every but one target value has only one element and the other target value has all the other elements.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean."], "links": [["statistics", "statistics"], ["distribution", "distribution"], ["asymmetrical", "asymmetrical"], ["mean", "mean#Noun"]], "raw_glosses": ["(comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean."], "tags": ["comparable", "not-comparable", "usually"], "topics": ["mathematics", "sciences", "statistics"]}], "sounds": [{"ipa": 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"hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "ferde"}, {"code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "döntött"}, {"code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "rézsútos"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "obliquo"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "sghembo"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "trasversale"}, {"code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "skośny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "assimétrico"}, {"code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "oblic"}, {"code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "kosý"}, {"code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "šikmý"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "asimétrico"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "oblicuo"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "raw_tags": ["in a compound"], "sense": "of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel", "tags": ["sometimes"], "word": "vino"}, {"code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel", "tags": ["feminine", "plural"], "word": "necoplanare"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "skreščivajuščijesja", "sense": "of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel", "tags": ["plural"], "word": "скрещивающиеся"}, {"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "asimetričen", "sense": "of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean", "word": "асиметричен"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean", "word": "vino"}, {"code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean", "word": "torz"}, {"code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "čowle", "sense": "of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean", "word": "چوله"}], "word": "skew"}

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The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.\nThe adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.", "forms": [{"form": "skewer", "tags": ["comparative"]}, {"form": "more skew", "tags": ["comparative"]}, {"form": "skewest", "tags": ["superlative"]}, {"form": "most skew", "tags": ["superlative"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "-", "2": "er", "3": "more"}, "expansion": "skew (not generally comparable, comparative skewer or more skew, superlative skewest or most skew)", "name": "en-adj"}], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [{"categories": ["English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples"], "examples": [{"text": "a skew arch", "type": "example"}, {"ref": "1698, Jo[hn] Keill, “Of the Perpendicular Position of the Axis of the Earth to the Plane of the Ecliptick”, in An Examination of Dr. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth. 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"hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "ferde"}, {"code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "döntött"}, {"code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "rézsútos"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "obliquo"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "sghembo"}, {"code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "trasversale"}, {"code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "word": "skośny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "assimétrico"}, 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