misshading
misshading is the present participle and gerund of misshade.
Meaning of misshade
Verb
misshade (third-person singular simple present misshades, present participle misshading, simple past and past participle misshaded)
- To shade improperly.
- Two days later when he was being discharged, Adams handed Borden a termination slip stating that he was being discharged for misshading.1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889
Noun
misshading (countable and uncountable, plural misshadings)
- An instance of misshading
- Nor can we do better than to borrow the portrait of this sui-generis eccentricity which we find hanging up on the walls of the Knickerbocker -– drawn by one of its most skilful artists, with only one or two misshadings of the pencil1865, Richard Miller Devens, Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes, page 608
- The credited testimony of Borden shows that Adams on October 12 prewarned him about the discharge and told him that the ground for the discharge would be the misshading of materials ( i.e. selecting materials for manufacture into a batch of shirts which were not of matching shades).1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889
Forms of misshading
| plural | misshadings |
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Questions about misshading
- What does misshading mean?
- Misshading means an instance of misshading.
- What is misshading the present participle and gerund of?
- Misshading is the present participle and gerund of misshade.
- What part of speech is misshading?
- Misshading is a noun.
- What is the plural of misshading?
- The plural of misshading is misshadings.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: misshading (page history and authors); misshade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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