misfill

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.

   • A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription.
   • Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway.
2. 2

   To fill a receptacle incorrectly

   To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.

   • As indeed it was, since Newell herself corrected all of the envelopes which Rushford had misfilled.
   • Vaporizers not equipped with keyed fillers have been occasionally misfilled with the wrong anesthetic liquid.
   • It depletes or demoralizes so many prayer-meetings, chills or misfills so many pulpits, and makes so many unworshipping choirs.
3. 3

   To enter the wrong information into.

   • The other point was on this question of accommodation of the Serjeant at Arms, which you rather suggested he gave up out of charity after it had been misfilled by the lobby correspondents?
   • In turn, the behavior feeds back a sensory signal array that "fills out" the schema if properly executed, and "misfills it out" if misexecuted, hence allowing for error detection and correction.
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   1. 4

      The act of misfilling a prescription, order, or requirement.

      • Do not pass the misfill off as some minor incident, but demonstrate to the customer that this does not frequently occur in your store and express your sincere apologies and try to make amends to the satisfaction of the customer.
      • Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway.
      • The pharmacist is careful not to comment on the misfill.
   2. 5

      The act or result of misfilling a receptacle.

      • Misfills became more prevalent with lower casting temperatures , and this problem was not completely eliminated.
      • The machine will also remove valves with no damage to the can in case of error or misfill.
      • The test showed that an excessive number of underfills resulted in too few runs to assume misfills were random. The machine was apparently set too low and was adjusted.

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