different between skew vs parallel

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)

1. (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

   Antonym: unskew

   1. (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
2. (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
3. (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:throw

4. (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
5. (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
6. (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)

1. (not comparable) Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
2. (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
3. (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

skew (comparative more skew, superlative most skew)

1. (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

Noun

skew (plural skews)

1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
2. An oblique or sideways movement.
3. A squint or sidelong glance.
4. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
5. 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.
6. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
7. (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.
8. (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)

1. (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.
2. (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
3. (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)

1. sky, air
2. (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)

1. 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.

English

Etymology

From Middle French parallèle, borrowed from Latin parallelus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?r'?-l?l", IPA^(key): /?pæ???l?l/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger) enPR: per'?-l?l", IPA^(key): /?p????l?l/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Adjective

parallel (not comparable)

1. Equally distant from one another at all points.
   • 1911, William Robert Martin, s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Navigation

     the instrument held with its plane roughly parallel to the equinoctial or celestial equato

2. Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".

   • When honour runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.

3. (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.

   Antonyms: perpendicular, skew

4. (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.

   Antonyms: serial, sequential

   Coordinate term: concurrent

Derived terms

• embarrassingly parallel
• parallelize

Translations

Adverb

parallel (comparative more parallel, superlative most parallel)

1. With a parallel relationship.

   The road runs parallel to the canal.

Related terms

• parallelly

Translations

Noun

parallel (plural parallels)

1. One of a set of parallel lines.
2. Direction conformable to that of another line.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     lines that from their parallel decline

3. A line of latitude.

   The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.

4. An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
5. Something identical or similar in essential respects.
6. A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.

   Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope

7. (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
8. (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.

Antonyms

• perpendicular, skew (?)

Translations

Verb

parallel (third-person singular simple present parallels, present participle (US) paralleling or (UK) parallelling, simple past and past participle (US) paralleled or (UK) parallelled)

1. To construct or place something parallel to something else.
2. Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation.
3. Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
4. To compare or liken something to something else.
5. To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
6. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
7. To produce or adduce as a parallel.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.iv:

     Who cannot parallel these stories out of his experience?

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• sequential

References

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin parall?lus from Ancient Greek side-by-side, from ???? (pará, “by”) +? ???????? (all?lois, “each other”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p????l?l?]

Adjective

parallel (neuter parallelt, plural and definite singular attributive parallelle)

1. (geometry) parallel (equally distant at all points)
2. parallel (equivalent)

Noun

parallel c (singular definite parallellen, plural indefinite paralleller)

1. parallel (a similar case)
2. parallel (comparison)
3. (geometry, rare) parallel (a parallel line)

Inflection

References

• “parallel,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “parallel,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

parallel (not comparable)

1. parallel

Inflection

Synonyms

• evenwijdig

German

Etymology

From Latin parall?lus, parall?los, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paráll?los).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?a?le?l/

Adjective

parallel (not comparable)

1. parallel

   Die Linien meines Schreibpapiers laufen exakt parallel.

   Die eine Bahnschiene verläuft auch in der Kurve stets parallel zur anderen.

2. Serving the same purpose, leading to the same result

   Die Autobahn verläuft parallel zur Eisenbahn aber in ganz unterschiedlichen Biegungen und Kurven.

   Die Eheleute hatten nichts verabredet, so haben sie parallel (zueinander) eingekauft.

Declension

Antonyms

• gekreuzt, schief, windschief

Related terms

• Parallele
• Parallelenparalaxe
• parallelisieren
• Parallelklasse
• Parallelogramm
• Parallelverschiebung

Further reading

• “parallel” in Duden online