Meaning of mispitch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch.
2. To give the wrong angle or pitch to.
3. To pitch badly or in error (any sense).
4. To do a poor job of promoting or selling someone or something, or to attemp such promotion at the wrong place or time.
5. To set up a tent or camp badly (poor construction, bad location, etc.)
6. To discard incorrectly.
7. To throw badly.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Ideally, you purposefully mispitch a low note that is full of harmonics and use a powerful articulation to provoke harmonics to sound.”

“Such an approach, if successful, will maximize rotor energy capture in spite of poorly understood rotor performance, icing, mispitched blades, etc.”

“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”

“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.”

“"Oh bloody hell..." Sandi began quietly, seeming to think she'd mispitched it and rushed it.”

“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.”

“I see , he's playing off the trumps hoping someone will mispitch ... aha , look ! East has discarded a small heart”

“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.”

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