Skew vs Diagonally - What's the difference?
skew | diagonally |
(mathematics) Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).
To change or alter in a particular direction.
To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
To throw or hurl obliquely.
To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
* L'Estrange
To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
(architecture) 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 coping stones and retain them in place.
In a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
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As adverbs the difference between skew and diagonally
is that skew is awry; obliquely; askew while diagonally is in a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.As an adjective skew
is neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).As a verb skew
is to change or alter in a particular direction.As a noun skew
is 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 coping stones and retain them in place.skew
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* skew arch * skew back * skew bridge * skew curve * skew gearing, skew bevel gearing * skew surface * skew symmetrical determinantVerb
(en verb)- A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
- Child, you must walk straight, without skewing .
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Noun
(en noun)diagonally
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Adverb
(en adverb)citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
