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skew

Best crossword clue

"Set at an angle"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /skjuː/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted ekswStarts with SEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. turn or place at an angle

Word origin

From Middle English skeu, skew (“stone with a sloping surface forming the slope of a gable, offset of a buttress, etc.”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman eschu, escuwe, eskeu, or Old Northern French eschieu, eskieu, eskiu, from Old French escu, escut, eschif (“a shield”) (modern French écu), from Latin scūtum (“a shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewH- (“to cover, protect”) or *skey- (“to cut, split”).

Used in a sentence

  • Thus asynchronous torques cannot be avoided but can be reduced by proper choice of coil span and by skewing the stator or rotor slots.
  • We have looked at the obese and anorexic communities, whose conditions fall on a curve skewed towards overweight for determining the social norm of body weight and who face a golden-mean social ideal of body weight.
  • A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.

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