misplot
misplot verb: to incorrectly mark the position of.
Verb
misplot (third-person singular simple present misplots, present participle misplotting, simple past and past participle misplotted)
- To incorrectly mark the position of.
- I believe that M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman, for example, all miss or misplot Wordsworth's position on the crucial intellectual axes represented by Burke and Rousseau.1984, James Chandler, Wordsworth's Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics
- If the doctor is not familiar with the dermatome patterns, he may misplot the dermatome areas, and the test may be either a false positive or a false negative.1989, Marshall Houts, Leonard Marmor, Proving Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis: Orthopedic tests: neck, page 106-19
- To make an error in planning a trajectory or route.
- Mr. O'Hara, athlete that he was, misplotted his course and plunged into the well.1953, Mr. O'Hara, page 52
- It is amazing how easy it is, in the distracting environment of a boat under way, to misplot a bearing by 10°; to write down the wrong time for something; to misidentify charted features used for range; to copy the wrong number out of a table.1975, John S. Letcher, Jr., “Primer on Piloting”, in Cruising World, volume 1, number 6, page 28
- To make a mistake in forming a course of action or storyline.
- And now and then we find a great idea, misplotted and half told.1929, Camera: A Practical Magazine for Photographers - Volume 39, page 65
- By contrast Levin's sequel, Rosemary's Son (1997), is an ill-conceived and misplotted attempt to imagine the future that awaits Rosemary's baby at the dawn of the millennium.1999, Marshall B. Tymn, Neil Barron, Fantasy and Horror, page 279
Noun
misplot (countable and uncountable, plural misplots)
- An instance of misplotting.
- A misplot of ship position is the most frequently made plotting error .1963, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Aerographer's Mate 3 & 2, page 117
- A printout of individuals too far from block's center enabled me to eliminate obvious misplots.1979, Richard Wolniewicz, Northeast Minneapolis, page 31
- A plot error; an inconsistency or mistake in creating a storyline.
- Some, who read this, may not know what the crowning misplot was, and it will bear mentioning.1858, Alexander Lovett Stimson, History of the Express Companies, page 338
Examples of misplot in a sentence
- They implanted viruses that would make the systems report aircraft where none existed, hide some aircraft that were airborne, and misplot the positions and altitude of other aircraft.1999, Tom Cool, Secret Realms, page 155:
- And I take real care if I am crossing the Greenwich meridian or the equator, when the scale reverses: it is incredibly easy to misplot a position.2018, Paul Boissier, Understanding a Nautical Chart:
- One day Connie Mayers is at point doing 'recky' while the squad is going over the central highlands, but somehow he has misplotted the course.1992, Maurice Paterson, Big Sky/little Bullet: A Docu-novel, page 17:
- You did not misread the map, nor did you misplot your course.2001, Thomas Myron Williams, Thomas Williams, The Devil's Mouth, page 405:
Forms of misplot
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misplots |
| present participle | misplotting |
| past participle | misplotted |
| past | misplotted |
| Noun | |
| plural | misplots |
Origin of misplot
From mis- + plot.
Questions about misplot
- What does misplot mean?
- Misplot means to incorrectly mark the position of.
- How do you use misplot in a sentence?
- They implanted viruses that would make the systems report aircraft where none existed, hide some aircraft that were airborne, and misplot the positions and altitude of other aircraft.
- What part of speech is misplot?
- Misplot can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of misplot?
- The past tense of misplot is misplotted.
Words near misplot in the dictionary
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