English-Swedish translations for skew

• förvränga
  Jag hoppas att regeringarna inte ger efter för frestelsen att på något sätt försöka förvränga denna politiska mix vid det kommande toppmötet.I hope governments will not succumb to the temptation to try in any way to skew that policy mix at the forthcoming summit.

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