miscatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪskætʃ/
ipa: /mɪsˈkætʃ/
Forms: form: miscatches
Etymology: From mis- + catch.
Senses: examples: text: 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 a miscatch, the above-named number really has been caught in 3266-882=2,384 times fishing. Hence the catch of every time of fishing amounts to 9.1 barrels.
ref: 1858, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:
text: 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.
ref: 1859, Walter White, Northumberland, and the Border, page 242:
text: Investigating types and number of fishing gears; catch per unit of effort by different fishing gears; miscatch amount and bycatch ratio of fish banned.
ref: 2017, Zhenli Huang, Bingfang Wu, Three Gorges Dam: Environmental Monitoring Network and Practice, page 133:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1899, Montague Shearman, Football: History, page 142:
text: We regret the slip, but then we take consolation in the fact that the best of jugglers sometimes make a miscatch.
ref: 1921, American Builder - Volume 31, page 113:
text: 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.
ref: 1981, Marian Jenks Wirth, Games for Growing Children, page 128:
text: They caught him after a couple of miscatches and falls in the grass and dirt.
ref: 1996, Wallace Herbert Doebler, Summer Along the Clinton: A History of the Clinton River Parks:
hypernyms: misfield
coordinate_terms: misthrow
glosses: The act of catching in which the thing that is caught is then dropped; a fumble.
examples: text: 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 stop.
ref: 2002, Textile Trends - Volume 45, page 32:
text: 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 procedure is performed while the animal is experiencing a miscatch, it is considered inhumane.
ref: 2019, Kristin J Holtgrew-Bohling, Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, page 48:
glosses: An act of catching in which something is caught wrongly, such as in the wrong position.
examples: text: 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 former version of the program (five groups of tests on the prediction indices and one group on the syntactic word class indices).
ref: 1964, Harvard University. Computation Laboratory, Mathematical Linguistics and Automatic Translation, page 14:
text: 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.
ref: 1989, John Schmidt, Growing Up in the Oil Patch, page 42:
glosses: A misperception or misidentification.