Meaning of miscatch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.
2. The act of catching in which the thing that is caught is then dropped; a fumble.
3. An act of catching in which something is caught wrongly, such as in the wrong position.
4. A misperception or misidentification.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Investigating types and number⟳ of fishing gears; catch⟳ per unit of effort by different fishing gears; miscatch amount and bycatch ratio of fish⟳ banned.”

“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.”

“We regret⟳ the slip⟳, but then we take⟳ consolation in the fact that the best of jugglers sometimes make⟳ a miscatch.”

“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.”

“They caught him after a couple of miscatches and falls in the grass and dirt.”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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).”

“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.”

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