how to pronounce skew

/skjuː/

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An example use of skew in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… because it tends to skew more towards …”

meanings of skew

noun:

Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
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.
An oblique or sideways movement.
One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
The coping of a gable.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.

verb:

To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
To hurl or throw.
To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
To bias or distort in a particular direction.
To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

adjective:

Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

adverb:

Askew, obliquely; awry.

skew frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word skew occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics skew can be related to

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