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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