misshoot
verbEtymology
From mis- + shoot.
- inherited from *skeutaną✻
- inherited from *skeutan✻
- inherited from scēotan
- inherited from scheten
Definitions
To shoot incorrectly (any sense).
- The camera man progresses set-up by set-up and frame by frame at the same time making all the calibrated camera moves that are indicated on the exposure sheets. Any misshooting would cause a jump on the screen.
- I am the Secretary who will be on the watch when we move all the computers, and if some computer gets snarled up or messed up or snafued and we misshoot 100,000 checks across the country, I am the guy at the computer door.
- A lab director accuses an electron microscopist of misshooting a row of micrographs.
An instance of misshooting.
- Even in such a considerably convenient hypothesis, there would be a large number of "misshoots."
- rough perspective: there are a lot of misshoots (like we all do), but as long as you understand where they should converge and these lines are ghosted, that's not a problem.
- In fact, the two that were circulated were just a matter of perspective, which may be caused by the bad faith of the crowd caused by the photographer's misshoot.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for misshoot. 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