Mischeck
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A check mark that was made inaccurately.
"Checking when done had been so badly done that more time of clerks was wasted erasing mischecks than would have been required to do the whole correctly in the beginning."
- 2 A check pattern that has an error in it.
"[…]and these looms ran continuously, automatically changing from an almost empty bobbin to a filled bobbin, making no mischecks in the pattern, or mispicks from a moving filling thread."
- 3 An instance of checking or inspecting that was inaccurate.
"Actually some vulsum females were admixed in paratype specimens, certainly by careless mischeck of vein tc 2."
- 1 To enter a check mark inaccurately.
"Naturally, especially when they first join the Knighthood, some children who have always been careless about the truth will continue to be so and will mischeck their charts."
- 2 To fail to inspect accurately.
"This is the second squadron pay roll you've mischecked today."
- 3 To incorrectly mark an item when it is checked so that it does not go to the right place or is not returned to the correct person.
"Suspicions were excited by our baggage, especially one, a strange trunk, mischecked as Mrs. Numan, at Macon."
Example
More examples"Naturally, especially when they first join the Knighthood, some children who have always been careless about the truth will continue to be so and will mischeck their charts."
Etymology
From mis- + check.
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