单词 | misprint |
释义 | misprintn. An error in the printing of something; a typographical error. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode > instance of miswriting1430 falsehoodc1440 fault1523 escape1570 erratum1589 errat1654 misprint1813 mis-script1817 1813 Ld. Byron Lett. & Jrnls. 22 Nov. (1974) III. 170 I can't survive a single misprint—it choaks me to see words misused by the Printers. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 143 In treating this ‘path’ as a mere misprint or mis-script for ‘put’. 1884 Q. Rev. Jan. 215 The bibliographical information..abounds in errors..many of them no doubt mere misprints. 1937 D. Thomas Let. 20 Jan. (1985) 243 Thank you so much for asking J.M. Dent whether the line ‘Once in this wind’ was not a misprint for ‘once in this wine’. 1982 F. Raphael Byron (1988) 86 Vladimir Nabokov's observation of the mere misprint that divides ‘incest’ from ‘nicest’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misprintv. 1. transitive. To print incorrectly (sometimes with complement indicating the erroneous form which has been printed); to make a mistake in printing (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > abuse language [verb (transitive)] > in written mode miswriteOE misprinta1513 mismark1533 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxxiiii. f. cxvi If Dame nature had any thynge forgoten or Mysprynted in her. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 772/1 Leste there myght haue bene some ouersight..by misse writing or mysse pryntynge those fygures of algorisme. 1598 T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer sig. B bbb vj This place is misprinted, as well in misnaming of the signe, as the misreckoning the degrees of the sun. 1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 97 Vega's copie hath sanctification haply mis-printed. 1729 E. Fenton Observ. Waller's Poems in E. Waller Wks. p. xxx/2 Shillingsworth, Walter, Cid, have been constantly mis-printed for Chillingworth, Waller, and Sid. 1847 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 324 A volunteer body of regulars..was sent under Captain Slough. [Note] In Amer. State Papers V. 138, this name is misprinted ‘Hough’. 1882 A. B. Grosart in Spenser's Wks. IV. 3/2 Catch-word is misprinted. 1953 P. Larkin Let. 7 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 213 The Spectator misprinted the cattle poem last Friday. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor ii. i. 55 He had too many stamps misprinted for his private collection. 2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 19 Oct. With black humour, you note that in the Order of Service the song [sc. ‘Ay Waukin' O’] is misprinted, ‘Aye Wakened’. 2. intransitive. Of a deer: to place the hind feet outside the prints of the forefeet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of deer fray1575 strain1575 yard1848 misprint1904 1904 W. A. Baillie-Grohman & F. Baillie-Grohman in Edward, Duke of York Master of Game 190/1 A hind..misprints, that is sometimes the hind foot will be placed beside the fore foot, sometimes inside or in front of it. 1957 F. J. T. Page Field Guide Brit. Deer 71 Misprint. To step irregularly; failure to register [i.e. to place the hind feet in the slots made by the fore feet]. Derivatives misˈprinted adj. ΚΠ 1843 J. P. Collier Introd. Othello in Wks. Shakespeare VII. 494 The truth is, that Pope was right in his conjecture as to the misprinted word. 1889 Dict. National Biogr. XIX. 395/2 The work contains a few misprinted dates. 1993 Austral. Jrnl. Chinese Affairs 29 184 In an otherwise carefully written and edited book, it is surprising to find a large number of misprinted Chinese names on the final pages. misˈprinting n. ΚΠ 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. Illustr. 73 Our Chronologies, which are by transcribing, interpolation, misprinting..now and then strangely disordered. 1821 Ld. Byron Let. 4 Nov. (1979) IX. 55 The misprinting was shameful—such nonsense!—in some of the clearest passages too. 1995 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 7 Dec. 9 a The misprinting begins after page 139, when pages 92 through 107 are repeated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813v.a1513 |
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