The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SKEW
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More clues leading to the result SKEW
- Colour in small gardens
- 18 Bias of south-facing gardens
- Bias knitting’s initially held by stitch
- Oblique sun touching London suburb
- Slanting southern gardens
- Slant appears in south at botanical gardens
- Wings of sparrowhawk with opposite points twisted
- Asymmetrical small garden in capital
- Asymmetrical bi-coloured horse with mane?
- Colour of sun on garden
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The straight part
We know that "Oblique" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case oblique = skew.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SKEW mean?
SKEW noun- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To hurl or throw.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
- Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- Askew, obliquely; awry.
- 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.
- The coping of a gable.
- One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.