Meaning of misstage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To stage improperly.
2. To assess incorrectly as belonging to a different stage than is actually the case
3. To stage (a performance) badly.

Examples

“The lower end⟳ of each movable sleeve incorporates a flow⟳ control⟳ orifice plate to prevent⟳ rapid misstaging due to improper packing adjustment.”

“A switch⟳ apparatus for use⟳ in a motor vehicle, comprising: an elongate rack and having a plurality of rack teeth disposed thereon, said rack being axially reciprocal; a pinion adapted to matingly engage⟳ said rack; bore means for aligning said pinion relative to said rack along an axis generally perpendicular to the elongated rack in its direction of reciprocation; and means for preventing misstaging of said pinion relative to said rack.”

“In the validation set⟳, there were 59 words misstaged as a noun or adjective, which is 1.5% of all the words or 4% of the total number⟳ of true nouns and adjectives in the Appendix.”

“In the tumors that were misstaged, most errors occurred between stages T2 (overstaging) and T3 (understaging); in terms of therapeutic considerations, this distinction is more critical than that between stages T1 and T2.”

“To do the work⟳ chapter, reproducible staging of chick embryos is required. When misstaging it will be impossible to repeat⟳ a given experiment⟳.”

“Despite this, CT urogram has been shown to misstage nearly 40% of patients.”

“When Imazu et al. compared conventional EUS and contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS in terms of preoperative T-staging of pancreatobiliary tumors, they found that contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS correctly T-staged 24 of 26 pancreatobiliary tumors, six of which were misstaged by conventional EUS.”

“But Schneider has wantonly misstaged Lucky's monologue: instead of a recitation by rote of a travestied history of Western philosophy and religion that gradually disintegrates into chaos, we get⟳ a choppy set⟳ of starts and stops, as of a jalopy that cannot get⟳ into proper gear.”

“Out Cry⟳ is an example of why you feel⟳ your later plays are misstaged.”

“Gerald Freedman has misstaged the wryly titled musical, giving it no panache, sensitivity or style.”

“The audience is left with an impossible decision: not only have⟳ they been sitting in the theater for too long, since they are hearing one and a half acts, they are being asked to applaud after a scene of brutality and sex, usually misstaged as a rape.”

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