Meaning of misplot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To incorrectly mark the position of.
2. To make an error in planning a trajectory or route.
3. To make a mistake in forming a course of action or storyline.

Examples

“I believe that M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman, for example, all miss or misplot Wordsworth's position on the crucial intellectual axes represented by Burke and Rousseau.”

“If the doctor is not familiar with the dermatome patterns, he may misplot the dermatome areas, and the test may be either a false positive or a false negative.”

“They implanted viruses that would make the systems report aircraft where none existed, hide some aircraft that were airborne, and misplot the positions and altitude of other aircraft.”

“And I take real care if I am crossing the Greenwich meridian or the equator, when the scale reverses: it is incredibly easy to misplot a position.”

“Mr. O'Hara, athlete that he was, misplotted his course and plunged into the well.”

“It is amazing how easy it is, in the distracting environment of a boat under way, to misplot a bearing by 10°; to write down the wrong time for something; to misidentify charted features used for range; to copy the wrong number out of a table.”

“One day Connie Mayers is at point doing 'recky' while the squad is going over the central highlands, but somehow he has misplotted the course.”

“You did not misread the map, nor did you misplot your course.”

“And now and then we find a great idea, misplotted and half told.”

“By contrast Levin's sequel, Rosemary's Son (1997), is an ill-conceived and misplotted attempt to imagine the future that awaits Rosemary's baby at the dawn of the millennium.”

“If we misplot ourselves, no doubt we will mislive ourselves; but we are storied creatures.”

“As James miscast Adam Verver for his role, so has James's role, it strikes me, been misplotted for him.”

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