misshoot
misshoot verb: to shoot incorrectly (any sense).
Verb
misshoot (third-person singular simple present misshoots, present participle misshooting, simple past and past participle misshot)
- 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.1950, Television: The Business Magazine of the Industry, page 36
- 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.1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security, Social Security Financing Issues, page 237
Noun
misshoot (plural misshoots)
- An instance of misshooting.
- Even in such a considerably convenient hypothesis, there would be a large number of "misshoots."1995, United States. Embassy (Japan), United States. Embassy (Japan). Translation Services Branch. Political Division, Daily Summary of Japanese Press, page 7
- 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.2020 April 16, Litalu2, “Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes”, in Drawabox
Examples of misshoot in a sentence
- A lab director accuses an electron microscopist of misshooting a row of micrographs.1985, Michael Lynch, Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science, page 218:
- The ‘cultural turn’ which is even otherwise unjustifiable because it both misshoots and overshoots the target, as I will try to argue, makes matters worse for TS.2005, P.P Giridhar, Translatology: Interrogative Translatology: Interrogative Musings on the Grid:
- Not quite round – but good enough to be launched from a slingshot and to cause an arrogant lad to misshoot with his bow.2011, Allan Frewin Jones, Destiny's Path:
- 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.2021 January 5, “Hamasaki, who was mocked as a ball, really gained 200 pounds? It's so spicy”, in lujuba, archived from the original on 21...
Forms of misshoot
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misshoots |
| present participle | misshooting |
| past participle | misshot |
| past | misshot |
| Noun | |
| plural | misshoots |
Origin of misshoot
From mis- + shoot.
Questions about misshoot
- What does misshoot mean?
- Misshoot means to shoot incorrectly (any sense).
- How do you use misshoot in a sentence?
- A lab director accuses an electron microscopist of misshooting a row of micrographs.
- What part of speech is misshoot?
- Misshoot can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of misshoot?
- The past tense of misshoot is misshot.
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