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misswitch

misswitch verb: to switch incorrectly or by mistake.

Verb

misswitch (third-person singular simple present misswitches, present participle misswitching, simple past and past participle misswitched)

  1. To switch incorrectly or by mistake.
    • But if I am honest with you, I must say that that happy condition either in some way misswitched or was wrecked on the way up here.1907, Union League Club of Chicago, Exercises in Commemoration of the Birthday of Washington, page 46
    • Thus, to prevent misswitching, the headway between two cars should be about a car length.1975, Traffic Quarterly - Volume 29, page 139

Noun

misswitch (plural misswitches)

  1. An instance of misswitching.
    • The performance of a mini-hump design should be specified in terms of a given humping rate (without misswitches and stalling ) and a range of coupling impact speeds on the classifcation tracks for all cars between design-specified hardest and easiest rolling resistance cars ( specified in pounds /...1981, Railroad Classification Yard Technology Manual, page 75
    • The planning and execution of the sequences mean heavy burden on the operators, because a misswitch can cause heavy damages.1996, Proceedings: ISAP '96: Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, page 380

Examples of misswitch in a sentence

  • He even invited his own mother into combat, just to kill her for misswitching the babies on purpose in the hospital, as he was taught by Kelcey Kombat.2016, Russell Brown, Kid Fight: Anthology of Sinister Terror, page 255:
  • He blames his mother, Margrat Howard, for the misswitch.2016, Russell Brown, Kid Fight: Anthology of Sinister Terror, page 255:

Forms of misswitch

Verb
third-person singular presentmisswitches
present participlemisswitching
past participlemisswitched
pastmisswitched
Noun
pluralmisswitches

Origin of misswitch

From mis- + switch.

Questions about misswitch

What does misswitch mean?
Misswitch means to switch incorrectly or by mistake.
How do you use misswitch in a sentence?
He even invited his own mother into combat, just to kill her for misswitching the babies on purpose in the hospital, as he was taught by Kelcey Kombat.
What part of speech is misswitch?
Misswitch can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of misswitch?
The past tense of misswitch is misswitched.

Words near misswitch in the dictionary

  1. misswearing
  2. misswears
  3. misswing
  4. misswinging
  5. misswings
  6. misswitch
  7. misswitched
  8. misswitches
  9. misswitching
  10. misswore
  11. missworn

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