skew
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kulkea vinoon, heittää
vino, viisto
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liikkua vinossa">liikkua vinossa, liikkua vinosti">liikkua vinosti
skew englanniksi
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
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To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
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To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
(RQ:Clare Shepherd's Calendar)
Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
(quote-book)|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=Printed at the Theatre|Theater|year=1698|page=78|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zwn1b7UPArMC&pg=PP90|oclc=1051491277|passage=Our earth which makes one in that airy fleet when it eſcaped ſo narrowly being ſhipwrackt in the great Deluge, was however ſo broken and diſordered that it loſt its equal poiſe and thereupon the centre of its gravity changing, one Pole became more inclined towards the Sun and the other more removed from it, in which ſkew poſture it hath ſtood ever ſince.
(quote-book); and M. Senex,(nb...)|year=1745|volume=I|section=paragraph 78|page=124|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OyChVj-3hNEC&pg=PA124|oclc=895076240|passage=And this is done by cauſing the Threads of the Screw C D to take hold of the oblique or ſkew Teeth of the Wheel as ''c'', and by continually turning the Wheel round to draw up a great Weight as W by means of the Rope which is wound on the Axis E F.
(RQ:Cervantes Motteux Don Quixote)
(quote-book)|year=1834|page=13|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=crxVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA13|oclc=18543068|passage=Over Barrow-street the arch is built with what is technically called ''knee'd'' or ''elbow quoins''; the stones being cut so as to form an oblique or skew bed on the face of the ring, and to return to a square bed within: ...
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Whittaker and Company|year=1838|page=178|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FaZbAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA178|oclc=22503337|passage=Here is another of those magnificent skew bridges, sprung from the sides of the excavation. Looking at it with the face towards the tunnel, when you are about 200 yards distant, the effect is very singular, as it appears to be a portion of the entrance thereto.
(quote-book),(nb...)|year=1898|section=paragraph 4|page=3|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/publications03brituoft/page/3/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=56220607|passage=Their the graves' enclosure walls, within which several burials were found, were at right angles to the great wall of the town, and cut through the other graves (mastabas) which, though parallel to one another, were skew to the town walls.
Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
(quote-book); Simpkin, Marshall & Co.,(nb...); Hamilton, Adams & Co.,(nb...)|year=1883|section=paragraph 72|page=101|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924012038927/page/n139/mode/1up|oclc=504528222|passage=The walls are all united at one end into one head wall; which runs 14′ skew of the Pyramid on the W.; ...
A squint or sidelong glance.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
(quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=Liverpool|publisher=J. F. Cannell, printer,(nb...)|year=1832|page=29|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iyk4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA29|oclc=1014121424|passage=We now come to Whiston village and bridge, (7½ miles) and after passing under a wooden bridge, dash under one of 47 feet span, of stone and brick, with a remarkable skew.
(quote-book)|series=(w) Extra Series|seriesvolume=VIII|location=London|publisher=Trübner|Nicholas Trübner & Co.,(nb...)|year=1869|page=xvii|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWymAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR17|oclc=9065674|passage=Thus one of the many skews in the Harleian Catalogue was set straight. (Don't let any one abuse the first Cataloguer of a Collection for skews. For all Catalogues (as for all Indexes) one ought to be grateful: for those without mistakes, most grateful.)
(quote-book)|year=1876|section=part II (Of Materials and Structures), section VIII (Of Stone and Brick Arches), paragraph 295 (Skew Arches)|page=429|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4UlIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA429|oclc=67898438|passage=The ''angle of skew'', or ''obliquity'', is the angle which the axis of the archway, A A, makes with a perpendicular to the face of the arch, B C A B. The span of the archway, "''on the square''," as it is called (that is, the perpendicular distance between the abutments), is less than the span ''on the skew'', or parallel to the face of the arch, in the ratio of the cosine of the obliquity to unity. It is the span ''on the skew'' which is equal to that of the corresponding symmetrical arch.
(quote-book); Simpkin, Marshall & Co.,(nb...); Hamilton, Adams & Co.,(nb...)|year=1883|section=paragraph 22|page=41|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924012038927/page/n78/mode/1up|oclc=504528222|passage=The mean skew of the core to the base is 1′ 33″, and its mean azimuth - 5′ 16″ to true North.
(quote-book) Farmers' Bulletin|Farmers’ Bulletin|seriesvolume=no. 597|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office|month=March|year=1917|page=7|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MIjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA7|oclc=83768712|passage=It is apparent that by shifting the position of the hitching link the angle of skew may be increased or diminished as the conditions require. When dragging immediately over ruts or down the center of the road after the sides have been dragged, it is usually preferable to have the hitching link at the center of the chain and to run the drag without skew.
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
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 stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
(quote-book)|edition=new|location=London|publisher=Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans,(nb...)|year=1838|page=210|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KTsIAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA210|oclc=39476494|passage=How many yards of roofing and serking, in a Roof 45 feet, 8 in. long, from skew to skew; and 21 feet, 8 in. deep, from ridge to easing, including 9 inches for wall plates or double eave?
(quote-book)|title=A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture|edition=4th|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue|year=1845|volume=I|page=340|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftermsu01park_2/page/340/mode/1up|oclc=951962440|passage=(smallcaps): the term skew is still used in the north for a stone built into the bottom of a gable or other similar situation to support the coping above ...|brackets=on
The coping of a gable.
(quote-book)|location=Glasgow; Edinburgh|publisher=(w)(nb...)|year=1855|volume=II|page=389|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGNNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA389|oclc=624615198|passage=''Gable Copings'' or ''Skews'' are of various forms of section, the most common varieties being the parallel sided, Fig. 654; the weathered, or feather-edged, Fig. 655; and the saddle-backed, Fig. 656. ... The skews at the eaves terminate in what is termed a club-skew or skew-corbel. This admits of an infinite variety of forms, according to the style of the building, but the object is the same in all—namely, to afford a support and abutment to the skew.
One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
(quote-book) In Two Parts|location=London|publisher=Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell,(nb...)|year=1533|year_published=1821|volume_plain=part I|pages=xxviii and xxix|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDwJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR28|oclc=874355902|passage=&91;page xxviii&93; Here ensuithe an abstracte of the freemasons worke. ... It'm, the walle new made on the west syde of the watergate ... a bottres made w(sup) harde asheler of Kent, l. foot, and in Cane asheler a skew vj. foot, ... &91;page xxix&93; It'm, at the ''Juell Hows'' door, iij. spaces covered w(sup) skew and crest, amontying xxxvj. fote of stone.
(quote-book)|title=A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture|edition=5th|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue,(nb...)|year=1850|volume=I (Text)|page=429|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftermsu01park_1/page/429/mode/1up|oclc=68091111|passage=(smallcaps): this phrase, which occurs in the specifications for the repairs at the Tower of London, (23 H. VIII.,) plainly describes the common coping of a wall which consists of a sloping or ''skew'' surface surmounted by a roll moulding by way of (smallcaps); sometimes there are two skews, separated by a set-off.
A segment of carved stone to cover a gable with.