mispitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispitches
form: mispitching
form: mispitched
form: mispitched
Etymology: From mis- + pitch.
Senses: examples: text: It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils' ability to produce something of value.
ref: 1995, T. M. Perry, Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs, page 64:
text: My first attempt goes none too well: I sing the wrong mnemonic (though right pitch) in line two and mispitch the leap between lines four and five.
ref: 2004, Eric Clarke, Nicholas Cook, Empirical Musicology, page 24:
text: The first two solos on record are probably by Pee Wee Erwin; the third, by Bunny Berigan, starts off strongly, but he appears to mispitch and end up on the wrong harmonic.
ref: 2012, Catherine Tackley, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, page 73:
text: Ideally, you purposefully mispitch a low note that is full of harmonics and use a powerful articulation to provoke harmonics to sound.
ref: 2016, Kim Walker, Spirited Wind Playing: The Performance Dimension, page 230:
glosses: To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch.
examples: text: Such an approach, if successful, will maximize rotor energy capture in spite of poorly understood rotor performance, icing, mispitched blades, etc.
ref: 2010, James F. Manwell, Jon G. McGowan, Anthony L. Rogers, Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application, page 396:
glosses: To give the wrong angle or pitch to.
examples: text: Fines [Receipts] Received for the city's part of persons breaking and disobeying customs, ordinances and laudable acts ordained for the commonwealth of the city, and for fines taken of persons committing offences within the market of the city by way of forestalling and regrating, and for wares hawked in the streets, and for wares and merchandises foreign bought and sold within the liberties of the city, 'mispitching' of cloths in inns out of the common markets, breaking of ordinances in fellowships, making of unlawful wares, breaking of the assize of bread, annoyances done in the river of Thames with filth and ordure, for burying of jakes (jaques) within the liberties of the city, and for the admission of persons to occupy the feat of cobbling and botchers within the city and liberties
ref: 1984, City of London (England). Records Office, Corporation of London Records Office, Betty R. Masters, Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century, page 5:
text: In the world of inflated telecoms takeovers at that time, it was not inconceivable that a deflated Vodafone share price could follow a mispitched bid and that Vodafone itself could become of interest to other parties.
ref: 2003, Trevor Merriden, Rollercoaster: The Turbulent Life and Times of Vodafone and Chris Gent, page 63:
text: "Oh bloody hell..." Sandi began quietly, seeming to think she'd mispitched it and rushed it.
ref: 2017, Lyn Dowland, Winder Path:
glosses: To pitch badly or in error (any sense).
To do a poor job of promoting or selling someone or something, or to attemp such promotion at the wrong place or time.
examples: text: Nearly as bad as the air overnight in these European nineteenth-century tents, which sicken our best armies, was the vile smell in which I found one evening our camp mispitched after eleven hours' ride.
ref: 1880, B. Solymos, Desert Life: Recollections of an Expedition in the Soudan, page 82:
glosses: To pitch badly or in error (any sense).
To set up a tent or camp badly (poor construction, bad location, etc.)
examples: text: I see , he's playing off the trumps hoping someone will mispitch ... aha , look ! East has discarded a small heart
ref: 1995, David Silver, Tales Out of School, page 116:
glosses: To pitch badly or in error (any sense).
To discard incorrectly.
examples: text: At the plate the catcher is responsible for catching pitches, keeping mispitched balls in front of the plate, calling pitches that are normally done through hand signals, picking off runners, and they are considered the leaders of the field.
ref: 2021, University of the District of Columbia, “The plate umpire may suspend play because of darkness”, in Course Hero:
glosses: To pitch badly or in error (any sense).
To throw badly.