Sekirov Dictionary

miscatch

/ˈmɪskætʃ/

noun 4
/mɪsˈkætʃ/ verb 2
forms 3

noun4

•
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. — 1899
An act of catching in which something is caught wrongly, such as in the wrong position.
•
A misperception or misidentification.
- A miscatch of sound, slip of hand, waver in decision and $100,000 is dropped into a mile-deep hole never again to be fished up. — 1989
•
A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.
- At temperatures below fifty, the proportion of catch to miscatch is almost equal ; between fifty and sixty degrees the proportion is about four catches to one miscatch. — 1859

miscatch

/mɪsˈkætʃ/

verb2

•
To make a miscatch (any sense).
- Auto detection can be interrupted any time by the user if the program miscatches the markers. — 1995
•
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. — 1913

forms

miscaught · miscatching · miscatches

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