mispitching

Verb

mispitch (third-person singular simple present mispitches, present participle mispitching, simple past and past participle mispitched)

1. To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch.
   • It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils' ability to produce something of value.1995, T. M. Perry, Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs, page 64
2. To give the wrong angle or pitch to.
   • Such an approach, if successful, will maximize rotor energy capture in spite of poorly understood rotor performance, icing, mispitched blades, etc.2010, James F. Manwell, Jon G. McGowan, Anthony L. Rogers, Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application, page 396
3. To do a poor job of promoting or selling someone or something, or to attemp such promotion at the wrong place or time.
   • Fines [Receipts] Received for the city's part of persons breaking and disobeying customs, ordinances and laudable acts ordained for the commonwealth of the city, and for fines taken of persons committing offences within the market of the city by way of forestalling and regrating, and for wares...1984, City of London (England). Records Office, Corporation of London Records Office, Betty R. Masters, Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century, page 5
4. To set up a tent or camp badly (poor construction, bad location, etc.)
   • Nearly as bad as the air overnight in these European nineteenth-century tents, which sicken our best armies, was the vile smell in which I found one evening our camp mispitched after eleven hours' ride.1880, B. Solymos, Desert Life: Recollections of an Expedition in the Soudan, page 82
5. To discard incorrectly.
   • I see , he's playing off the trumps hoping someone will mispitch ... aha , look ! East has discarded a small heart1995, David Silver, Tales Out of School, page 116
6. To throw badly.
   • At the plate the catcher is responsible for catching pitches, keeping mispitched balls in front of the plate, calling pitches that are normally done through hand signals, picking off runners, and they are considered the leaders of the field.2021, University of the District of Columbia, “The plate umpire may suspend play because of darkness”, in Course Hero

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