Skews vs Skens - What's the difference?
skews | skens |
(skew)
(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.
(sken)
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(Northern English) to squint
* 1989 , Marie Joseph, A World Apart , page 344:
* 1861 , , "The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle":
to glance
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As verbs the difference between skews and skens
is that skews is third-person singular of skew while skens is third-person singular of sken.skews
English
Verb
(head)skew
English
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)skens
English
Verb
(head)sken
English
Verb
(skenn)- She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.
- He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.
