Misclean
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A defect in printing fabric that arises from improperly cleaning the rollers that apply the ink, leaving unintended marks on the fabric.
"Defects are commonly of great variety and are described as holes, missing color, oil, white scrimp, misclean, out of fit (where the pattern is out of line), grey black scrimp, snap, stick in, hair line, color streak, color spot, roller scratches, torn selvage, and chatter (where thelines come horizontal in the printing)."
- 1 To clean improperly.
"No amount of pre-evaluation that we can carry out will completely avoid or prevent customer complaints because for every kind of consumer use we can forecase the actual consumer can find many more ways of straining, misusing, miscleaning, and otherwise mistreating merchandise."
Example
More examples"No amount of pre-evaluation that we can carry out will completely avoid or prevent customer complaints because for every kind of consumer use we can forecase the actual consumer can find many more ways of straining, misusing, miscleaning, and otherwise mistreating merchandise."
Etymology
From mis- + clean.
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