Skewed vs. Curve — What's the Difference?

To turn or place at an angle

In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point.

To give a bias to; distort

A line that deviates from straightness in a smooth, continuous fashion.

To take an oblique course or direction.

A surface that deviates from planarity in a smooth, continuous fashion.

To look obliquely or sideways.

Something characterized by such a line or surface, especially a rounded line or contour of the human body.

To display a statistical tendency toward

A relatively smooth bend in a road or other course.

Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.

A line representing data on a graph.

Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.

A trend derived from or as if from such a graph

Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.

A graphic representation showing the relative performance of individuals as measured against each other, used especially as a method of grading students in which the assignment of grades is based on predetermined proportions of students.

(Mathematics) Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.

The graph of a function on a coordinate plane.

(Statistics) Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.

The intersection of two surfaces in three dimensions.

An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.

The graph of the solutions to any equation of two variables.

Twisted at an angle.

(Baseball) A curve ball.

Biased, distorted

(Slang) Something that is unexpected or designed to trick or deceive.

Simple past tense and past participle of skew

To move in or take the shape of a curve

Having an oblique or slanting direction or position;

To cause to curve.

(Baseball) To pitch (a ball) with a curve.

To grade (students, for example) on a curve.

(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved. Category:en:Curves

A gentle bend, such as in a road.

A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.

(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.

(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.

(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.

(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.

The attractive shape of a woman's body.

(transitive) To bend; to crook.

(transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.

(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

(transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

(transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.

To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

The trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

A line on a graph representing data

A baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter

The property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

Turn sharply; change direction abruptly;

Extend in curves and turns;

Form an arch or curve;

Bend or cause to bend;

Form a curl, curve, or kink;