mischeck

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • […] however, given the rapid return to report levels preceeding^([sic]) the spike it is believed those subjects may have mischecked their questionnaires.
2. 2

   To fail to inspect accurately.

   • This is the second squadron pay roll you've mischecked today.
   • Perpetual inventory records are meaningless if a clerk mischecks the merchandise or places the wrong item code number on the receiving ticket.
   • Each driver checks the tonnage on his truck; sometimes, though, he either mischecks it or will lose a piece or unload it in the wrong place.
3. 3

   To incorrectly mark an item when it is checked so that it does not go to the right place…

   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.
   • A receipt must be taken from the owner for all baggage so delivered without the duplicate check being presented, as also for all baggage mischecked.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • On redirect Officer Williams indicated it was a mischeck.
   2. 5

      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. 6

      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.

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