<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) To give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely.</li><li>To make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager.</li><li>To distort; depict unfairly: When other researchers looked into the report, they found misrepresentation of data that skewed the evidence.</li><li>Statistics: To cause (a distribution) to have a disproportionate number of data points above or below the mean: The income categories for transit commuters were skewed toward higher incomes because the survey was only distributed through a phone app.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A tendency in a particular direction: Officials involved in budget-related discussions said that there was a skew towards social sector spending.</li><li>An oblique movement, direction, or position. Also called skew chisel.</li><li>A wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Having an oblique direction or position; slanting; sideways: The picture is square, but the angles of the trees give it a skew look.</li><li>Having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: Skew gearing.</li><li>Mathematics: (Of a dyad or dyadic) Equal to the negative of its conjugate.</li><li>(Of an arch, bridge, etc.) Having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.</li><li>Statistics: (Of a distribution) Not symmetrical; having skewness.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>