What's the difference between skewing and spewing?
Skewing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skew
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).
Spewing
Definition:
(p. pr.& vb. n.) of Spew
Example Sentences:
(1) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
(2) Media organisations gorge themselves, then spew out vast quantities of video, sound and copy.
(3) Meanwhile, California's pollution control officers warned this month that extreme heat and wildfires could set back decades of improvements in air quality, boosting smog formation and spewing dangerous smoke into the air.
(4) The old divisions between rich and poor countries, the climate polluters of the past and the rising economies now spewing out carbon in their rush to prosperity, were wearing away, they said.
(5) The tea-shop owner’s home is just a couple of hundred metres from a huge, ageing coal-fired power plant in central Turkey , whose red-and-white chimneys spew dirty fumes.
(6) Could hit their market share if so.” During the byelection, anonymous Tweeters such as @northerncomment – a hate-spewing account followed by O’Flynn – were still chuntering about a boycott of Walkers.
(7) On 1 February, 17 died when Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province spewed lava and gas.
(8) Meanwhile, at the top of the tree, managers of the maquiladoras – faced with recession and competition from Asia – needed fewer workers, spewing their surplus humanity (which flocked here from all over Mexico) into the new narco-economy of "opportunities" for murder, extortion and kidnapping.
(9) Few who spew this vitriol would dare speak with the type of personalized scorn toward, say, George Bush or Tony Blair – who actually launched an aggressive war that resulted in the deaths of at least 100,000 innocent people and kidnapped people from around the globe with no due process and sent them to be tortured.
(10) That's why his praise for European fascists as being the only ones saying "sensible" things about Islam is significant: not because it means he's a European fascist, but because it's unsurprising that the bile spewed at Muslims from that faction would be appealing to Harris because he shares those sentiments both in his rhetoric and his advocated policies, albeit with a more intellectualized expression.
(11) The refinery chimneys were spewing out 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air per year till 2011.
(12) Drillers have lost control over wells during fracking, including one last month in Bradford County that spewed chemicals for 19 hours.
(13) The plant, located 150 miles north of Tokyo, has spewed radiation into the atmosphere and contaminated seawater and agricultural produce, forcing the evacuation of 80,000 people living nearby.
(14) But environmental groups have accused the bloc of doing too little to end subsidies for carbon-spewing coal power plants, and of undermining investments in renewables.
(15) Gatwick’s gung ho about expansion Barely had David Cameron got back to Downing Street than the Airports Commission was reopening its consultation on Heathrow versus Gatwick, and publishing new data on the fumes each expanded airport would spew into their neighbourhoods.
(16) Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews I ask why the media never questions how I single handily [sic] destroyed his hapless run for president.
(17) But he warned that countries must avoid being "locked in" to high-carbon infrastructure - power stations and buildings constructed today will still be in operation and spewing out carbon decades from now, and that will be unsustainable.
(18) The fascinating pitter-patter of stomach contents against the back of your teeth as a fearsome torrent of spew erupts from within like a liquid poltergeist fleeing an exorcism.
(19) These mobile factories dig out earth and line a concrete shell around them as they push ahead, spewing out spoil and laying track behind them.
(20) And MSNBC still has quite a ways to go before it matches Fox's demonstrated willingness to spew outright falsehoods in pursuit of its partisan agenda.