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Tweak vs. Skew — What's the Difference?

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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