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skew

/skyoo/US // skyu //UK // (skjuː) //

倾斜,歪斜,倾斜度,倾斜性

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely.
    • : 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.
    • : Statistics. to cause to have a disproportionate number of data points above or below the mean.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
    • : to look obliquely; squint.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having an oblique direction or position; slanting.
    • : having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing.
    • : Mathematics. equal to the negative of its conjugate.
    • : having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.
    • : Statistics. not symmetrical; having skewness.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an oblique movement, direction, or position.
    • : Also called skew chis·el. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.

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Examples

  • Hillis also emailed lawmakers with a personal plea, pitching the bill as a way to entice more young people, who tend to skew liberal, into the Republican fold.

  • Even though this is an activity skewed towards to wealthier people, it is helping a remote economy, and it is getting people outside at a time when we feel caged in.

  • That’s both because it was a shortened year — only 23 appearances for him — and because pitch usage doesn’t often skew much for a guy who throws a near-even diet of sliders and four-seam fastballs.

  • Day-care operators say their workers, whose employees tend to skew older than teachers and often make minimum wage, should be next in line for vaccination.

  • Parler attracted an audience that skewed hard to the right, including some who came to the service because they believed Twitter was biased against conservatives.

  • In Scotland, hourly wage inequality matches the rest of the United Kingdom once the skew of London is factored out.

  • Other colleges took more overt actions to skew their Clery Act numbers.

  • There are a number of inadvertent and purposeful ways for universities to skew their Clery Act numbers.

  • Those numbers skew heavily toward the males, with just over 11 percent of male high school students reporting use.

  • Using capital gains but not government income would tend to skew the results toward the wealthy.

  • Niagara Falls' spectacular skew-wise splashing toward the Canadian side didn't set many hearts at ease, either.

  • She was put together skew-geed an' one side of her was so out of geer that she couldn't run straight even on a macadam road.

  • Another bridge is a perfectly constructed skew arch, which the train crosses a few feet after leaving Chicago.

  • That'll make everyone skew all weird and screwy, and make everyone look guilty.

  • Of a truth I will even buy me a skew-bald mount and ride round corners in search of the like reputation.