English-Italian translations for skew

• distorcere
  Distorcere le regole della concorrenza non è giusto. Skewing the rules of competition is not right.
  Mi auguro che i governi non cedano alla tentazione di cercare in qualche modo di distorcere tale combinazione di politiche in occasione di questo Vertice. I hope governments will not succumb to the temptation to try in any way to skew that policy mix at the forthcoming summit.
• obliquo
• sghembo
• trasversale

Definition of skew

• To form#Verb|form or shape#Verb|shape in an oblique#Adjective|oblique way; to cause#Verb|cause to take an oblique position#Noun|position
• To bias#Verb|bias or distort in a particular direction
• To hurl#Verb|hurl or throw#Verb|throw
• To move#Verb|move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle#Verb|sidle; to lie#Verb|lie obliquely
• To jump#Verb|jump back or sideways in fear#Noun|fear or surprise#Noun|surprise; to shy#Verb|shy, as a horse#Noun|horse
• To look#Verb|look at obliquely; to squint#Verb|squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously
• Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line#Noun|line; askew#Adjective|askew
• Of two lines in three-dimensional space#Noun|space: neither intersecting#Adjective|intersecting nor parallel
• Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean#Noun|mean
• askew#Adverb|Askew, obliquely; awry
• Something that has an oblique#Adjective|oblique or slanted#Adjective|slanted position#Noun|position
• A bias#Noun|bias or distortion in a particular direction
• A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems in which the same sourced#Adjective|sourced clock#Noun|clock signal#Noun|signal arrives at different components at different time#Noun|times
• A state#Noun|state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness
• A stone#Noun|stone at the foot#Noun|foot of the slope#Noun|slope of a gable, the offset#Noun|offset of a buttress, etc., cut#Verb|cut with a sloping#Adjective|sloping surface#Noun|surface and with a check#Noun|check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place#Noun|place; a skew-corbel
• The coping#Noun|coping of a gable
• One of the stones place#Verb|placed over the end#Noun|end of a gable, or form#Verb|forming the coping of a gable

Examples

• A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results
• a skew arch

Related words

• skewed
• askew
• skewer
• skewness
• skew-symmetric
• skewbald
• skewedness
• skew-Hermitian
• Aiskew