What's the difference between aside and skew?

Aside


Definition:

  • (adv.) On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.
  • (adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts.
  • (adv.) So as to be heard by others; privately.
  • (n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (2) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (3) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
  • (4) Aside from cadaver knees, there has been only one report of a successful in vivo training model.
  • (5) The group set aside £3.2bn to cover PPI mis-selling in 2011.
  • (6) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
  • (7) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
  • (8) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
  • (9) 3) Aside from a high level of alkaline phosphatase, there were no notable abnormalities revealed in the biochemical blood tests.
  • (10) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
  • (11) Aside from this mu-only phenotype, lines that make only light chain, both chains or no immunoglobulin-related polypeptides have also been found.
  • (12) So, all of her recent press- and liberal-friendly broadsides against Wall Street aside, Warren says she is still “not running for president” .
  • (13) Toxicity of both regimens was acceptable and comparable, aside from greater renal toxicity and more nausea and vomiting with FSM.
  • (14) Banks have been urged to pay compensation more quickly after figures showed that £1.9bn was paid last year – only a quarter of the amount set aside, as consumer group Which?
  • (15) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
  • (16) One little aside - the average absolute surprise on the initial GDP release over the last six quarters (prior to today's number) was 0.4 percentage points.
  • (17) However, the home secretary has returned to the high court and asked Mr Justice Lloyd Jones to set aside the order.
  • (18) Aside from directly damaging the adult stage of N.brasiliensis and possibly leading to its elimination from the small intestine, free radicals may also damage intestinal cells, thereby contributing to the gut pathology characteristic of infection.
  • (19) They are standout talents of their generation and will provide a remarkable conclusion to what we all hope will be an incredible evening, with all profits benefiting Scotland’s children’s charities.” Hunter also plans to set aside some seats at the event for local young people.
  • (20) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.

Skew


Definition:

  • (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.
  • (a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
  • (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
  • (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
  • (adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  • (adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
  • (2) the summer increase in preterm births was characterized by an increase of skewness which means an extension of the lower part of the distribution.
  • (3) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
  • (4) MEPPs with skewed amplitude histograms and bursting behaviour were evident at both sub-stages.
  • (5) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (6) In this paper, the three rotational axes are shown to be skewed and off-set from each other, therefore, a three-cylindric open chain with skewed joint axes is proposed to measure the six displacements between the two reference frames.
  • (7) He is helped by constituency boundaries that skew the pitch in Labour’s favour, but even then the leap required looks improbable.
  • (8) The velocity distributions in main and side tubes were skewed towards the inner walls close to the flow divider.
  • (9) The normalized quantal size varied randomly, with a mean value of 0.51% (SD = 0.20) and was relatively independent of n. In contrast, the distribution of p, which ranged from 0.17 to 0.74 (mean = 0.40, SD = 0.155), was skewed to the right; this parameter tended to decrease as a function of increasing n. The normalized unitary inhibitory conductance (g'IPSP) underlying an IPSP is equal to the product of npg'q, where g'q is the normalized quantal conductance.
  • (10) It is demonstrated that the avoidance strategies which constitute defensive work lead to a progression of counterstrategies and foster skewed priorities.
  • (11) Greater efforts to tackle occupational segregation would also help ensure longer term change to our skewed labour market.
  • (12) However, if the number of categories on the response scale is increased, the degree of separation between the mean responses obtained for a positively as opposed to a negatively skewed concentration distribution diminishes.
  • (13) Marbling scores were not distributed normally with both positive skewness and kurtosis (P less than .001).
  • (14) These age- and parity-related changes in litter composition are consistent with the Trivers-Willard hypothesis that physiologically-stressed females would skew offspring sex ratios to favour daughters.
  • (15) The Chimera grid was used to avoid a grid with highly skewed cells.
  • (16) Furthermore, they explain the low pH optima and skewed pH profiles previously reported for enzymatic activity toward high molecular weight substrates.
  • (17) Groups receiving no medication for gastric acidity had positively skewed pH distributions (nonsymmetrical distribution with tail pointing to right and majority of cases in lower range), and groups receiving medications for the reduction of acidity had negatively skewed pH distributions (nonsymmetrical with tail pointing to left and majority of cases in upper range).
  • (18) That 6% cut swells to 12% if inflation is accounted for and Labour also argues that the government's comparison is skewed because spending rose rapidly – 33% – in the four years to 2010 , in response to the Pitt review of the devastating 2007 floods, which killed 13 people, left 55,000 homeless and cost insurers £3bn.
  • (19) For low order modes (n less than 3) the F test statistics are approximately F distributed but for higher order models the test statistics are skewed to the left of the F distribution.
  • (20) These abnormalities include signs of dysfunction of ocular alignment (skew deviation, ocular tilt reaction, and environmental tilt), various types of nystagmus, smooth pursuit and gaze-holding abnormalities (eye deviation, ipsipulsion or lateropulsion, and impaired contralateral pursuit), and saccadic abnormalities (ipsipulsion and torsipulsion).