skews

Meaning of skews

noun
  1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
  2. An oblique or sideways movement.
  3. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  4. A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  5. A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
verb
  1. To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  2. To bias or distort in a particular direction.
    A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
  3. To hurl or throw.
  4. To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  5. To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  6. To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. The coping of a gable.
  3. One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

Information about skews

  • The singular form of skews is: skew.
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Hyphenation of skews

skews

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • skews is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with skews

reskews

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