different between rotate vs skew
rotate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rot?tus, perfect passive participle of rot? (“revolve”), from rota (“wheel”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: r?t?t', IPA(key): /????te?t/
- (US) enPR: r?'t?t, IPA(key): /??o?te?t/
Verb
rotate (third-person singular simple present rotates, present participle rotating, simple past and past participle rotated)
- (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
- He rotated in his chair to face me.
- (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
- The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
- (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
- The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
- (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
- Rotate the dial to the left.
- (transitive) To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
- 1975, Architectural Digest (volume 32, page 112)
- I've always admired the Japanese point of view that holds it best not to have a great number of objects around at one time but to rotate possessions — and display them with great simplicity.
- 1975, Architectural Digest (volume 32, page 112)
- (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
- The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
- (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
Synonyms
- (to turn) revolve
- (to make turn) circumvolve
Derived terms
- rotation
- rotatable
Related terms
- rota
Translations
Adjective
rotate (not comparable)
- Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
- a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
Anagrams
- terato-, totear
Italian
Verb
rotate
- second-person plural present indicative of rotare
- second-person plural imperative of rotare
- feminine plural of rotato
Anagrams
- attero, attore, ettaro, oretta, teatro
Latin
Verb
rot?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of rot?
rotate From the web:
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- what rotates on an axis
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- what rotates the earth
skew
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skju?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /skju/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophone: SKU
Alternative forms
- skeugh
Etymology 1
The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijan? (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”), Norwegian skjev (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
Verb
skew (third-person singular simple present skews, present participle skewing, simple past and past participle skewed)
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- Antonym: unskew
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
skew (not generally comparable, comparative skewer or more skew, superlative skewest or most skew)
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor at right angles 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
skew (comparative more skew, superlative most skew)
- (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
Noun
skew (plural skews)
- 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.
Derived terms
- on the skew
- skewness
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English skeu, skew (“stone with a sloping surface forming the slope of a gable, offset of a buttress, etc.”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman eschu, escuwe, eskeu, or Old Northern French eschieu, eskieu, eskiu, from Old French escu, escut, eschif (“a shield”) (modern French écu), from Latin sc?tum (“a shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewH- (“to cover, protect”) or *skey- (“to cut, split”).
Noun
skew (plural skews)
- (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; a skew-corbel.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
Translations
Notes
References
Further reading
- clock skew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- skew lines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- skew (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skiu?/
- Rhymes: -iu?
Etymology 1
From an earlier form of Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj?; doublet of sky.
Alternative forms
- skiw, skue, skyw, skewe, skwe, skiu, scue, schew
Noun
skew (plural skewes)
- sky, air
- (rare) cloud
References
- “skeu, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-23.
Etymology 2
From Old French escu, from Latin sc?tum.
Alternative forms
- scuwe, skyu, scheu, skyew, scu
Noun
skew (plural skewes)
- A segment of carved stone to cover a gable with.
References
- “skeu, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-23.
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