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— English words —

• skew v. (Transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
• skew v. (Transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
• skew v. (Transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
• skew v. (Intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
• skew v. (Intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
• skew v. (Intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
• skew adj. (Not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
• skew adj. (Not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
• skew adj. (Comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
• skew adv. (Rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
• skew n. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
• skew n. An oblique or sideways movement.
• skew n. A squint or sidelong glance.
• skew n. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
• skew n. A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in…
• skew n. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
• skew n. (Electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same…
• skew n. (Statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
• skew n. (Architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with…
• skew n. (Chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
• skew n. (Architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • skew n. Sky, air.
  • skew n. (Rare) cloud.
  • skew n. A segment of carved stone to cover a gable with.

— English words, defined in French —

• skew adj. Gauche, oblique.
• skew n. Inclinaison.
• skew v. Transitif Incliner, rendre oblique.
• skew v. Transitif Biaiser, distordre dans une direction particulière. Impulser dans une direction particulière.
• skew v. Intransitif Avancer de travers.
• skew v. Intransitif Sursauter sous l’effet de la surprise ou de la peur.
• skew v. Intransitif Regarder de travers, loucher (au sens propre comme au figuré).

— English word, defined in Italian —

• skew s. Direzione.

135 English words from 24 English definitions

about according according␣to air and architecture askew asymmetrical asymmetry awry back bias buttress carved cause certain Chiefly chimney circuit cloud comparable computers coping cover cowl cut digital dimensional direction distort distortion distribution Electronics end end␣of etc fear foot form forming gable geometry glance has hence horse hurl intersecting Intransitive its jump kind kind␣of lie line lines look look␣at lying mean move movement move␣sideways neither nor Northumbria Not oblique obliquely obsolete of␣a offset One over overhangs parallel particular perpendicular phenomenon piece place placed position prevents Rare revolves rock same Scotland segment shape shy sidelong sideways sidle skewness Sky slanted slanting slightingly slope smoking Something space squint state statistics stone stones such such␣as surprise suspiciously synchronous systems take tapering that the the␣same three three-dimensional throw to␣the Transitive two upwards vane way which wind with wooden working Yorkshire

13 English words from 8 foreign definitions

dans direction effet Gauche Incliner oblique propre Regarder rendre sens sous surprise travers

22 foreign words from 8 foreign definitions

au␣figuré au␣sens␣propre Avancer Biaiser comme de␣la de␣travers Direzione distordre figuré Impulser Inclinaison Intransitif loucher particulière peur Regarder␣de␣travers sens␣propre sous␣l’effet␣de Sursauter Transitif une

64 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Skewb skews Skewbs skewed Skewen skewer Skewes skewly skewon skewers skewest skew-gee skewiff skewing skewons skewable skew␣arch skewback skewbald skewcrop skewedly skewered skewerer Skeweses skewings skewness skew-wiff skew␣wiff skew-wift skew␣wift skewampus skewbacks skewbalds skewerers skewering skew␣field skewjawed skew␣wheel skewwhiff skew-whiff skew␣whiff skew-whift skew␣whift skew␣arches skew␣bridge skewedness skewerable skewerings skewerlike skew␣fields +14 words

16 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Askews deskews reskews unskews deskewed reskewed unskewed askewness deskewing nonskewed reskewing unskewing unskewered Portskewett hyperskewness quick␣release␣skewer

9 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

askew Askew Eskew gskew deskew reskew unskew on␣the␣skew picture-skew

3 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

kew Kew KEW

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EKs

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

KEWs

29 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

askew Askew Eskew Ewoks gskew K-Stew kwise Skewb skews swike swoke wakes wecks weeks Weeks Weiks wekas welks Welks Wenks werks Weske wikes Wikes Wiske w**kers Wneks wokes Wykes

18 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

EKs Esk EWS kes Kes kew Kew KEW Sek sew SWE Wes w/es we's wks WKS wks. w**ks

19 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

shew Shew Siew skaw sked skee skeg skel sken skeo skep sket Skow slew smew snew spew stew Stew

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

kew Kew KEW sew

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