miscatch

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.
    — Forty-five vessels had, during the whole fishing time, fished 3266 times and caught 21,623 barrels of herrings, consequently on an average 6.66 barrels every time the nets were laid; however, there having been 882 times a miscatch, the above-named number really has been caught in 3266-882=2,384 times fishing. Hence the catch of every time of fishing amounts to 9.1 barrels.
  2. The act of catching in which the thing that is caught is then dropped; a fumble.
    — On dealing with a shot which is coming rather higher he should stand square to the kicker with his body well behind his hands, in the event of a miscatch or fumble.
  3. An act of catching in which something is caught wrongly, such as in the wrong position.
    — It is necessary to jet the water of about 50-100mm at the end of free flying, as lower/ smaller than this limit to instabilise the weft causing mispick or miscatch problems on the other side thus causing the machine to stop.
  4. A misperception or misidentification.
    — Thus, miscatches on indices may well to detected after only two groups of tests, one group on a prediction index and the other on the corresponding syntactic word class index, instead of after a minimum of six as in the former version of the program (five groups of tests on the prediction indices and one group on the syntactic word class indices).
动词 v.
  1. To make a miscatch (any sense).
    — How great a stumbling block to a good dictator would be the amanuensis who lacks concentration of mind, or through carelessness miscatches a word, and calls out to him in the midst of a brilliant flow of ideas, “wait please, I have not caught the word." or, "excuse me, did you say so and so?"
  2. To stutter or break the flow of words when speaking.
    — A woman near—her face livid in the stage-light and her eyes like cairngorms—miscaught a line and laughed aloud. Her panic at the sound of her own voice alone, was that of a doe parted from the herd.

词形变化

miscatches plural miscatches present,singular,third-person miscatching participle,present miscaught participle,past miscaught past

词源

词源 1
From mis- + catch.
词源 2
From mis- + catch.
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