单词 | mistype |
释义 | mistypev. 1. transitive. To assign incorrectly to a particular type; to classify erroneously. ΚΠ 1973 W. Soyinka Season of Anomy xii. 235 I had not only typed but mis-typed you. I didn't think you looked the hunting type. 1978 Washington Post 26 Apr. c2/2 Some agencies now are revising their headcounts because they think employes [sic] were mistyped before. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Jan. (Westchester section) 20/3 The two four-year-olds divided colors into those suitable for boys and those for girls and then examined their wardrobes to make sure their mothers had not mis-typed them. 2. transitive. To type incorrectly. Also intransitive: to make a typing error. ΚΠ 1977 National Jrnl. (U.S.) 21 May 801/2 In one of his weekly reports to the President, the ‘general’ in Attorney General Griffin B. Bell's title was mistyped ‘genetal’. 1982 Byte July 322/2 If my program requested a filename and I mistyped it, the program immediately stopped executing with an error message. 1984 A+ Mar. 135/1 If you mistype, entering LITs or some other word Savvy doesn't know, the pattern recognizer goes to work, comparing what you typed to what it knows. 1996 PC Week (Nexis) 30 Sept. 79 The integrated editor gave us appropriate syntax coloring, providing immediate visual warnings when we mistyped a language keyword. Derivatives misˈtyped adj. incorrectly typed. ΚΠ 1983 High Technol. Jan. 23/3 Spelling checkers can find mistyped words in many cases. 1992 Economist 22 Feb. 92/1 The software behind the screens will be able to check for entry mistakes, like mistyped account numbers. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1973 |
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