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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": "skews", "tags": ["plural"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {}, "expansion": "skew (plural skews)", "name": "en-noun"}], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [{"glosses": ["Something that has an oblique or slanted position."], "links": [["oblique", "oblique#Adjective"], ["slanted", "slanted#Adjective"], ["position", "position#Noun"]]}, {"glosses": ["An oblique or sideways movement."], "links": [["sideways", "sideways"], ["movement", "movement"]]}, {"glosses": ["A squint or sidelong glance."], "links": [["squint", "squint"]]}, {"glosses": ["A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking."], "links": [["vane", "vane"], ["cowl", "cowl"]]}, {"glosses": ["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."]}, {"categories": ["English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "1832, James Scott Walker, “The Broad-green Embankment”, in An Accurate Description of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, […], 3rd edition, Liverpool: J. F. Cannell, printer, […], →OCLC, page 29:", "text": "We now come to Whiston village and bridge, (7½ miles) and after passing under a wooden bridge, dash under one of 47 feet span, of stone and brick, with a remarkable skew.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1869, F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, “Forewords”, in F. J. Furnivall, editor, Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert): […] (Early English Text Society Extra Series; VIII), London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page xvii:", "text": "Thus one of the many skews in the Harleian Catalogue was set straight. (Don't let any one abuse the first Cataloguer of a Collection for skews. For all Catalogues (as for all Indexes) one ought to be grateful: for those without mistakes, most grateful.)", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1876, William John Macquorn Rankine, E. F. Bamber, “Of Masonry”, in A Manual of Civil Engineering, 11th edition, London: Charles Griffin and Company, […], →OCLC, part II (Of Materials and Structures), section VIII (Of Stone and Brick Arches), paragraph 295 (Skew Arches), page 429:", "text": "The angle of skew, or obliquity, is the angle which the axis of the archway, A A, makes with a perpendicular to the face of the arch, B C A B. The span of the archway, \"on the square,\" as it is called (that is, the perpendicular distance between the abutments), is less than the span on the skew, or parallel to the face of the arch, in the ratio of the cosine of the obliquity to unity. It is the span on the skew which is equal to that of the corresponding symmetrical arch.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "[1883], W[illiam] M[atthew] Flinders Petrie, “Outside of Great Pyramid”, in The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, London: Field & Tuer, […]; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […]; Hamilton, Adams & Co., […], →OCLC, paragraph 22, page 41:", "text": "The mean skew of the core to the base is 1′ 33″, and its mean azimuth - 5′ 16″ to true North.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1917 March, “How to Use the Drag”, in The Road Drag and How It is Used (United States Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 597), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 7:", "text": "It is apparent that by shifting the position of the hitching link the angle of skew may be increased or diminished as the conditions require. When dragging immediately over ruts or down the center of the road after the sides have been dragged, it is usually preferable to have the hitching link at the center of the chain and to run the drag without skew.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["A bias or distortion in a particular direction."], "links": [["bias", "bias#Noun"], ["distortion", "distortion"], ["direction", "direction"]]}, {"categories": ["English terms with quotations", "en:Electronics"], "examples": [{"ref": "1989, Ivan Andonovic, Deepak Uttamchandani, editors, Principles of Modern Optical Systems, volume 1, Norwood, Mass.: Artech House, →ISBN, page 501:", "text": "One application for which an optical filter can play an important role is that of a wideband connection with low time skew. [...] One signal, the clock, needs to be distributed to all parts of a digital circuit to synchronize its action. The necessarily long path results in the danger of the clock signal arriving at the wrong time (clock skew), limiting the maximum frequency at which the circuit may be clocked.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "2004, Sachin Sapatnekar, “Clocking and Clock Skew Optimization”, in Timing, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, section 9.8 (Conclusion), page 205:", "text": "Until recently, there has been a great reluctance to alter the clock network and attempt a nonzero-skew solution. However, recently, an increasing number of designers have been willing to utilize skews for performance enhancement.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times."], "links": [["electronics", "electronics"], ["phenomenon", "phenomenon"], ["synchronous", "synchronous"], ["digital", "digital"], ["circuit", "circuit"], ["system", "system"], ["computer", "computer"], ["sourced", "sourced#Adjective"], ["clock", "clock#Noun"], ["signal", "signal#Noun"], ["arrive", "arrive"], ["different", "different"], ["component", "component"], ["times", "time#Noun"]], "raw_glosses": ["(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."], "topics": ["business", "electrical-engineering", "electricity", "electromagnetism", "electronics", "energy", "engineering", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences", "physics"]}, {"categories": ["English terms with quotations", "en:Statistics"], "examples": [{"ref": "2012, James A. Rosenthal, “Shape of Distribution”, in Statistics and Data Interpretation for Social Work, New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, section 5.3.1 (Characteristics), page 53:", "text": "Skewness (skew) is the degree to which a distribution's shape departs from symmetry [...]. The greater the departure, the greater the skew. Symmetric distributions have no skew. For instance, the normal distribution is symmetric and is thus not a skewed distribution.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "2013, Larry Shover, “Volatility Skew: Smile or Smirk?”, in Trading Options in Turbulent Markets: Master Uncertainty through Active Volatility Management, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Bloomberg Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 47:", "text": "Skew is the contour, or the unevenness, in a distribution, the dent in the bell curve. A negative skew suggests that the left half of the normal distribution (the left side of the mean) is twisted in such a way that the prospect of achieving negative returns is superior to that of achieving large positive returns. [...] When dealing with skew, traders strive to resolve how frequently in the trading time horizon they will obtain negative returns rather than positive returns. 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Duodecimals. Or Cross Multiplication.”, in A Concise System of Commercial Arithmetic, Adapted to Modern Practice: […], new edition, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 210:", "text": "How many yards of roofing and serking, in a Roof 45 feet, 8 in. long, from skew to skew; and 21 feet, 8 in. deep, from ridge to easing, including 9 inches for wall plates or double eave?", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "[1845, [John Henry Parker], “Skew, Skew-table”, in A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, 4th edition, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue, →OCLC, page 340:", "text": "Skew, Skew-table: the term skew is still used in the north for a stone built into the bottom of a gable or other similar situation to support the coping above [...]", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["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."], "links": [["architecture", "architecture"], ["stone", "stone#Noun"], ["foot", "foot#Noun"], ["slope", "slope#Noun"], ["gable", "gable"], ["offset", "offset#Noun"], ["buttress", "buttress"], ["cut", "cut#Verb"], ["sloping", "sloping#Adjective"], ["surface", "surface#Noun"], ["check", "check#Noun"], ["receive", "receive"], ["coping stone", "coping stone"], ["retain", "retain"], ["place", "place#Noun"], ["skew-corbel", "skew-corbel"]], "raw_glosses": ["(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."], "topics": ["architecture"]}, {"categories": ["English terms with quotations", "Scottish English", "en:Architecture"], "examples": [{"ref": "1855, J. N., “MASON WORK”, in edited by John C[halmers] Morton, A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific, […], volume II, Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie and Son […], →OCLC, page 389:", "text": "Gable Copings or Skews are of various forms of section, the most common varieties being the parallel sided, Fig. 654; the weathered, or feather-edged, Fig. 655; and the saddle-backed, Fig. 656. [...] The skews at the eaves terminate in what is termed a club-skew or skew-corbel. 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[The Following is Extracted from a Survey Made of the Tower, in Order to a General Repair of Its Different Buildings, in the Twenty-third Year of King Henry the Eighth, Preserved in the Chapter-house at Westminster.]”, in The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, […] In Two Parts, part I, London: T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1821, →OCLC, pages xxviii and xxix:", "text": "[page xxviii] Here ensuithe an abstracte of the freemasons worke. 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Duodecimals. 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[The Following is Extracted from a Survey Made of the Tower, in Order to a General Repair of Its Different Buildings, in the Twenty-third Year of King Henry the Eighth, Preserved in the Chapter-house at Westminster.]”, in The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, […] In Two Parts, part I, London: T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1821, →OCLC, pages xxviii and xxix:", "text": "[page xxviii] Here ensuithe an abstracte of the freemasons worke. 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