Meaning of misfinger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make a mistake in the finger positions when playing an instrument, resulting in a wrong note.
2. To misplace the hands or fingers when typing, resulting in errors in the resulting text.
3. To unthinkingly or accidentally touch someone or something one should not.
4. To fumble or place something incorrectly due to poor coordination of the fingers.

Examples

“The pupil comes for his lesson and possibly has not thoroughly learned some part of it; he does not keep⟳ the time true, misfingers, strikes wrong notes, or, to take⟳ a milder illustration, does not feel⟳ the balance of the parts, does not divine the meaning of the composer, does not appreciate the beauty of the unity of the work⟳ as a whole, has not, in fact, "finished" it;”

“If Holmes misfingers a note⟳ on one of the violin strings, that is merely some small fault within the unified organisation of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson Incorporated.”

“The dancers had started on a third pass⟳ when Lady Lucianne piped a sour note⟳. She blushed and laughed at her own⟳ mistake⟳, interrupting her playing and causing Victor to misfinger his part as well.”

“This means that if he misfingers and is thrown a distance from his intended note⟳, he can continue⟳ from where he is, even if the note⟳ results in a modulation that takes him into another key.”

“Each one watched the one at the machine and didn't allow⟳ any misfingering. Very quickly they learned the touch⟳ method for the middle row.”

“The Charging Party contended that the only problem she had concerned misfingering on the first day use⟳ of the word processor.”

“BUt now, not wanting to drift from my intentions I look⟳ to some notes I made yesterday. And I retype that as 'but now' for I don't wish⟳ to perpetuate every misfingering.”

“The causes? Overconfidence? Misfingering? Disbelief that anything serious could happen⟳, by that opponent, so early?”

“I'm sorry, I misfingered, Dr Bowen shows me simian contact⟳ is disturbing to you.”

“I was soon able to set⟳ sentences of three or four words without a thought of looking at the board⟳, and the habit of reading the matrices as they assembled in the box, which I cultivated, now enables me to “spot" a transposition, or even a misfinger, or a matrix running in wrong channel, quite easily.”

“DUKE: Alas! Methinks I have⟳ misfinger'd it! FERDINAND: Sire, bend⟳ thou down thine aged frame And do thou smartly pluck it up again.”

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