Sekirov Dictionary

mischeck

/ˈmɪstʃɛk/

noun 3
/mɪsˈtʃɛk/ verb 3
forms 3

noun3

•
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. — 1894
•
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. — 1995
•
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. — 1910

mischeck

/mɪsˈtʃɛk/

verb3

•
To fail to inspect accurately.
- This is the second squadron pay roll you've mischecked today. — 1944
•
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. — 1925
•
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. — 1869

forms

mischecked · mischecking · mischecks

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