miscatches

Noun

miscatch (plural miscatches)

1. A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.
   • Forty-five vessels had, during the whole fishing time, fished 3266 times and caught 21,623 barrels of herrings, consequently on an average 6.66 barrels every time the nets were laid; however, there having been 882 times a miscatch, the above-named number really has been caught in 3266-882=2,384...1858, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
2. The act of catching in which the thing that is caught is then dropped; a fumble.
   • On dealing with a shot which is coming rather higher he should stand square to the kicker with his body well behind his hands, in the event of a miscatch or fumble.1899, Montague Shearman, Football: History, page 142
3. An act of catching in which something is caught wrongly, such as in the wrong position.
   • It is necessary to jet the water of about 50-100mm at the end of free flying, as lower/ smaller than this limit to instabilise the weft causing mispick or miscatch problems on the other side thus causing the machine to stop.2002, Textile Trends - Volume 45, page 32
4. A misperception or misidentification.
   • Thus, miscatches on indices may well to detected after only two groups of tests, one group on a prediction index and the other on the corresponding syntactic word class index, instead of after a minimum of six as in the former version of the program (five groups of tests on the prediction indices...1964, Harvard University. Computation Laboratory, Mathematical Linguistics and Automatic Translation, page 14

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