Meaning of misshoot | Babel Free

Definitions

To shoot incorrectly (any sense).

Examples

“The camera man progresses set-up by set-up and frame by frame at the same time making all the calibrated camera moves that are indicated on the exposure sheets. Any misshooting would cause a jump⟳ on the screen.”

“I am the Secretary who will be on the watch⟳ when we move⟳ all the computers, and if some computer gets snarled up or messed up or snafued and we misshoot 100,000 checks across the country, I am the guy at the computer door.”

“A lab director accuses an electron microscopist of misshooting a row of micrographs.”

“The ‘cultural turn⟳’ which is even otherwise unjustifiable because it both misshoots and overshoots the target⟳, as I will try⟳ to argue⟳, makes matters worse for TS.”

“This is a term of the archer, meaning: misshot, missing the mark⟳, or not on the bull's-eye) will go on unto the second and third generation's of a family (unless steps are taken to release⟳ the faulty belief system).”

“Not quite round – but good enough to be launched from a slingshot and to cause an arrogant lad to misshoot with his bow.”

“Rio wheeled into position to receive⟳ it, but the Frenchman misshot, sending the ball into open⟳ territory.”

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