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misscan

verb

Etymology

From mis- + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. formed as misscan — “mis- + scan”

Definitions

  1. To scan incorrectly.

  2. Something scanned incorrectly, such as erroneous text in an electronically scanned…

    Something scanned incorrectly, such as erroneous text in an electronically scanned document.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misscan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA