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miswrap

miswrap verb: to wrap incorrectly.

Verb

miswrap (third-person singular simple present miswraps, present participle miswrapping, simple past and past participle miswrapped)

  1. (ambitransitive) To wrap incorrectly.
    • We speak carefully and thoughtfully when we say that we honestly believe that the homoganized is more of a menace to the Oregon dairyman than the miswrapping of tub butter.1908, Oregon. Dairy and Food Commissioner, Biennial Report, page 22
    • This apparatus includes means for moving a wrapped ream of paper through stations where the wrapping is inspected, a label is applied, the location of the label is inspected, and any reams which are miswrapped or mislabeled are rejected while the properly wrapped and labeled reams are forwarded for...1977, Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Chemistry

Noun

miswrap (plural miswraps)

  1. An instance of miswrapping.
    • Miswraps dropped to less than 1 per cent.1963, American Management Association. Administrative Services Division, Case Studies in Computer-based Management, page 8
    • Reason: he saved a "substantial" amount of money on production line costs: fewer miswraps and jams and faulty packs with the cellophane .1975, Package Engineering - Volume 20, pages 1975-37

Examples of miswrap in a sentence

  • Either Frankie's miswrapping my hands, or I'm not punching square.2004, Esquire - Volume 142, page 201:
  • First, certain join orderings may cause a ring to miswrap and contain multiple zeros (this is referred to as a loopy cycle [7]).2007, Jayanth Kumar Kannan, Matthew Chapman Caesar, Ion Stoica, Scott Shenker, On the Consistency of DHT-Based Routing:
  • The whole batch must have been miswrapped.2008, Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair, page 151:

Forms of miswrap

Verb
third-person singular presentmiswraps
present participlemiswrapping
past participlemiswrapped
pastmiswrapped
Noun
pluralmiswraps

Origin of miswrap

From mis- + wrap.

Questions about miswrap

What does miswrap mean?
Miswrap means to wrap incorrectly.
How do you use miswrap in a sentence?
Either Frankie's miswrapping my hands, or I'm not punching square.
What part of speech is miswrap?
Miswrap can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of miswrap?
The past tense of miswrap is miswrapped.

Words near miswrap in the dictionary

  1. misworshipping
  2. misworships
  3. miswound
  4. miswove
  5. miswoven
  6. miswrap
  7. miswrapped
  8. miswrapping
  9. miswraps
  10. miswrit
  11. miswrite

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