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10 Language-to-English Dictionaries왜곡하다
Pronunciation / Transliteration: waegok-hada
"이 데이터는 결과를 왜곡할 수 있습니다."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
To cause to be biased, distorted, or misleading; to twist or turn from a straight line or true direction.
"An influx of late donations could significantly skew the election results."
- 1
Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; oblique or asymmetrical.
"The statistical distribution showed a skew curve toward the higher income brackets."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Old North French 'eskiever', meaning to shun or avoid, which stems from Germanic roots related to Old High German 'skeu' meaning shy or timid. Over centuries, the meaning shifted in Middle English to mean turned aside, oblique, or biased, eventually taking on its modern mathematical and statistical senses of distortion.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Skew" is said worldwide
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biaiser
Transliteration: byeh-zay
"Ces erreurs vont biaiser les résultats."
verzerren
Transliteration: fɛɐ̯ˈtsɛʁən
"Diese Daten können das Ergebnis verzerren."
distorcere
Transliteration: diˈstɔr.tʃe.re
"Questo errore rischia di distorcere il risultato."
sesgar
Transliteration: sesˈɣaɾ
"Los datos incompletos pueden sesgar el resultado."
distorcer
Transliteration: dʒis.toɾˈseɾ
"Essa falha pode distorcer o resultado."
पूर्ragग्रस्त करना
Transliteration: purnagrast karna
"यह त्रुटि परिणाम को प्रभावित कर सकती है।"
倾斜
Transliteration: qīngxié
"这些因素会扭曲最终的结果。"
왜곡하다
Transliteration: waegok-hada
"이 데이터는 결과를 왜곡할 수 있습니다."
歪める
Transliteration: yugameru
"そのエラーが結果を歪めてしまう。"
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