Tweak vs. Skew — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tweak and Skew
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Tweak
Twist or pull (something) sharply
He tweaked the boy's ear
Skew
To turn or place at an angle
Skew the cutting edge of a plane.
Tweak
Improve (a mechanism or system) by making fine adjustments to it
Engineers tweak the car's operating systems during the race
Skew
To give a bias to; distort
The use of a limited sample skewed the findings of the study.
Tweak
Become or cause to become agitated or excited, typically from taking amphetamines or another stimulant
I just about went crazy yesterday—I was totally tweaking out
Caffeine is a natural mood elevator but if you're stressed to begin with it can kind of tweak you out
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Skew
To take an oblique course or direction.
Tweak
A sharp twist or pull
An affectionate tweak
Skew
To look obliquely or sideways.
Tweak
A fine adjustment to a mechanism or system
No tweaks were required
Skew
To display a statistical tendency toward
A television program that skews toward teenagers.
Tweak
To pinch, pluck, or twist sharply
Tweaked her sister's ear.
Skew
Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.
Tweak
To adjust; fine-tune
Tweaked her computer setup.
Skew
Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
Tweak
To make fun of; tease.
Skew
Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
Tweak
To behave in an agitated or compulsive manner, especially when under the influence of a stimulant drug.
Skew
(Mathematics) Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
Tweak
To be under the influence of a stimulant drug, especially methamphetamine.
Skew
(Statistics) Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.
Tweak
A sharp, twisting pinch.
Skew
An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.
Tweak
A small adjustment
Made a few tweaks to the sound system.
Skew
(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
Tweak
A teasing remark or action; a joke.
Skew
(statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
Tweak
(transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
To tweak the nose.
Skew
(transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
Tweak
To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural.
Skew
To hurl or throw.
Tweak
(transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
Skew
(intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
Tweak
To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
Skew
(intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
Tweak
To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
Skew
(intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Tweak
A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
A tweak of the nose
Skew
(not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
A skew arch
Tweak
A slight adjustment or modification.
He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.
Skew
Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
Tweak
Trouble; distress; tweag.
Skew
Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
Tweak
A prostitute.
Skew
(rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
Tweak
(cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
Skew
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
Tweak
To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
Skew
An oblique or sideways movement.
Tweak
A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
Skew
A squint or sidelong glance.
Tweak
Trouble; distress; tweag.
Skew
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
Tweak
A prostitute.
Skew
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.
Tweak
A squeeze with the fingers
Skew
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
Tweak
Pinch or squeeze sharply
Skew
(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.
Tweak
Pull or pull out sharply;
Pluck the flowers off the bush
Skew
(statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
Tweak
Adjust finely;
Fine-tune the engine
Skew
(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.
Skew
The coping of a gable.
Skew
One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
Skew
Awry; obliquely; askew.
Skew
Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; - chiefly used in technical phrases.
Skew
A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
Skew
To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
Child, you must walk straight, without skewing.
Skew
To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
Skew
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Skew
To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
Skew
To throw or hurl obliquely.
Skew
Turn or place at an angle;
The lines on the sheet of paper are skewed
Skew
Having an oblique or slanting direction or position;
The picture was skew
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