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How to pronounce “skew”

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Pronunciation guide for skew

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of skew with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
My failed mission to find God -- and what I found insteadand we skew young.
Definition summary
(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

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How to pronounce skew

My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead

and we skew young.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “skew”

Meaning

  • [Verb]
  • (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  • (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  • (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
  • (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  • (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  • (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
  • [Adjective]
  • (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
  • (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
  • (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
  • [Adverb]
  • (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
  • [Noun]
  • Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
  • An oblique or sideways movement.
  • 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.
  • (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  • (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

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