miscatch
To make a miscatch (any sense).
Noun
- A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.
- Forty-five vessels had, during the whole fishing time, fished 3266 times and caught 21,623 barrels of herrings, consequently on an average 6.66 barrels every time the nets were laid; however, there having been 882 times...
- At temperatures below fifty, the proportion of catch to miscatch is almost equal ; between fifty and sixty degrees the proportion is about four catches to one miscatch. - 1859, Walter White, Northumberland, and the...
- Investigating types and number of fishing gears; catch per unit of effort by different fishing gears; miscatch amount and bycatch ratio of fish banned. - 2017, Zhenli Huang, Bingfang Wu, Three Gorges Dam: Environmental...
- The act of catching in which the thing that is caught is then dropped; a fumble.
- On dealing with a shot which is coming rather higher he should stand square to the kicker with his body well behind his hands, in the event of a miscatch or fumble. - 1899, Montague Shearman, Football: History, page 142:
- We regret the slip, but then we take consolation in the fact that the best of jugglers sometimes make a miscatch. - 1921, American Builder - Volume 31, page 113:
- Children are sometimes poor sports simply because they have never been told exactly how to be a good sport. Role-playing or teacher demonstration of misthrows or miscatches is often helpful and fun. - 1981, Marian Jenks...
Hypernyms: misfield
Coordinate Terms: misthrow
- An act of catching in which something is caught wrongly, such as in the wrong position.
- It is necessary to jet the water of about 50-100mm at the end of free flying, as lower/ smaller than this limit to instabilise the weft causing mispick or miscatch problems on the other side thus causing the machine to...
- A miscatch is where the animal's neck is not in the appropriate area and the animal is not caught as it is intended to be. When a miscatch occurs, adjustments should be made so that proper restraint is applied. If a...
- A misperception or misidentification.
- Thus, miscatches on indices may well to detected after only two groups of tests, one group on a prediction index and the other on the corresponding syntactic word class index, instead of after a minimum of six as in the...
- A miscatch of sound, slip of hand, waver in decision and $100,000 is dropped into a mile-deep hole never again to be fished up. - 1989, John Schmidt, Growing Up in the Oil Patch, page 42:
Origin
From mis- + catch.
Forms
Verb
- To make a miscatch (any sense).
- How great a stumbling block to a good dictator would be the amanuensis who lacks concentration of mind, or through carelessness miscatches a word, and calls out to him in the midst of a brilliant flow of ideas, “wait...
- After a pause she added these words, memorable forever; words whose meaning she may have miscaught, misunderstood; as to that we can never know; words which she may have rightly understood; as to that, also, we can...
- Auto detection can be interrupted any time by the user if the program miscatches the markers. - 1995, Ung Kim, Joon-Sung Chang, Seung-Han Park, 21st International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics:
- To stutter or break the flow of words when speaking.
- A woman near—her face livid in the stage-light and her eyes like cairngorms—miscaught a line and laughed aloud. Her panic at the sound of her own voice alone, was that of a doe parted from the herd. - 1913, Lippincott's...
- On occasions when he might have discussed Gray with someone other than Jeannie, an anxiety would paw at his throat, his voice would miscatch, and his mind would stutter over what he'd meant to say. - 1982, Greg Barron,...