misstage
misstage verb: to stage improperly.
Verb
misstage (third-person singular simple present misstages, present participle misstaging, simple past and past participle misstaged)
- To stage improperly.
- The lower end of each movable sleeve incorporates a flow control orifice plate to prevent rapid misstaging due to improper packing adjustment.1979, Chilton's Truck & Off-highway Industries, page 67
- A switch apparatus for use in a motor vehicle, comprising: an elongate rack and having a plurality of rack teeth disposed thereon, said rack being axially reciprocal; a pinion adapted to matingly engage said rack; bore means for aligning said pinion relative to said rack along an axis generally...1993 November 30, Jeffrey R. Williams, John C. Singer, “Apparatus for Indexing a Rack and Pinion Mechanism”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, volume 1156, number...
- To assess incorrectly as belonging to a different stage than is actually the case
- In the tumors that were misstaged, most errors occurred between stages T2 (overstaging) and T3 (understaging); in terms of therapeutic considerations, this distinction is more critical than that between stages T1 and T2.1998, Morton A. Meyers, Neoplasms of the Digestive Tract, page 407
- To do the work chapter, reproducible staging of chick embryos is required. When misstaging it will be impossible to repeat a given experiment.2008, Rocky S. Tuan, Cecilia W. Lo, Developmental Biology Protocols: Volume III, page 244
- To stage (a performance) badly.
- But Schneider has wantonly misstaged Lucky's monologue: instead of a recitation by rote of a travestied history of Western philosophy and religion that gradually disintegrates into chaos, we get a choppy set of starts and stops, as of a jalopy that cannot get into proper gear.1971 March 1, John Simon, “The Sorcerer and His Apprentices”, in New York Magazine, volume 4, number 9, page 58
- Out Cry is an example of why you feel your later plays are misstaged.1986, Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Conversations with Tennessee Williams, page 289
Examples of misstage in a sentence
- In the validation set, there were 59 words misstaged as a noun or adjective, which is 1.5% of all the words or 4% of the total number of true nouns and adjectives in the Appendix.1999, Saso Dzeroski, Tomaž Erjavec, “Learning to Lemmatise Slovene Words”, in James Cussens, Saso Dzeroski, editors, Learning Language in...
- Despite this, CT urogram has been shown to misstage nearly 40% of patients.2014, Philip M Hanno, Thomas J. Guzzo, S. Bruce Malkowicz, Penn Clinical Manual of Urology, page 563:
- Gerald Freedman has misstaged the wryly titled musical, giving it no panache, sensitivity or style.2003, Alvin H. Marill, More Theatre: Stage to Screen to Television, 1993-2001, page 5:
Forms of misstage
| third-person singular present | misstages |
|---|---|
| present participle | misstaging |
| past participle | misstaged |
| past | misstaged |
Origin of misstage
From mis- + stage.
Questions about misstage
- What does misstage mean?
- Misstage means to stage improperly.
- How do you use misstage in a sentence?
- In the validation set, there were 59 words misstaged as a noun or adjective, which is 1.5% of all the words or 4% of the total number of true nouns and adjectives in the Appendix.
- What part of speech is misstage?
- Misstage is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misstage?
- The past tense of misstage is misstaged.
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