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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