mischeck

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ check

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈtʃɛk/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪstʃɛk/

Verb

mischeck (third-person singular simple present mischecks, present participle mischecking, simple past and past participle mischecked)

1. To enter a check mark inaccurately.
   • 1925, National Parent-teacher - Volume 20, page 660:

     Naturally, especially when they first join the Knighthood, some children who have always been careless about the truth will continue to be so and will mischeck their charts.

   • 1977, United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America, Arbitration Cases, page 127:

     The June 1975 form had the Indefinite box checked; the January 1976 had the Never box checked. The checking of these boxes is not significant enough to deny benefits and could equally be mischecked by a nurse or secretary in the doctor's office.

   • 1980, Steven F. Wiker, Ross L. Pepper, Michael E. McCauley, A Vessel Class Comparison of Physiological, Affective State, and Psychomotor Performance Changes in Men at Sea, page 113:

     […] however, given the rapid return to report levels preceeding^[sic] the spike it is believed those subjects may have mischecked their questionnaires.

2. To fail to inspect accurately.
   • 1944, Story - Volumes 25-26, page 72:

     This is the second squadron pay roll you've mischecked today.

   • 1952, Frank Wordley Tuppeny, Inventory Control Techniques for a Grocery Warehouse, page 6:

     Perpetual inventory records are meaningless if a clerk mischecks the merchandise or places the wrong item code number on the receiving ticket.

   • 1955, Association of American Railroads. Freight Station Section, Proceedings, page 46:

     Each driver checks the tonnage on his truck; sometimes, though, he either mischecks it or will lose a piece or unload it in the wrong place.

3. To incorrectly mark an item when it is checked so that it does not go to the right place or is not returned to the correct person.
   • 1869, John Simpson Wilson, The Dead of the Synod of Georgia, page 366:

     Suspicions were excited by our baggage, especially one, a strange trunk, mischecked as Mrs. Numan, at Macon.

   • 1887 January, Rev. John Reid, Jr., “Great Falls, Montana: Descriptive Account of a Large and Wholly New Field”, in The Church at Home and Abroad, volume 1, number 1, page 33:

     I may state that to add to our discomforts in a new place, the Northern Pacific Railroad mischecked our Saratoga trunk, containing all my wife's apparel, that of my little girl and some of my own, besides articles of peerless worth to ourselves, and had it not been for Mrs. Moore's (Helena) generosity and self-denial, I am sure my wife would not have been alive to-day.

   • 1889, Canada. Privy Council, The Consolidated Orders in Council of Canada, page 957:

     A receipt must be taken from the owner for all baggage so delivered without the duplicate check being presented, as also for all baggage mischecked.

Noun

mischeck (plural mischecks)

1. A check mark that was made inaccurately.
   • 1894, Cynthia E. Cleveland, Democratic Campaign Book, page 201:

     Checking when done had been so badly done that more time of clerks was wasted erasing mischecks than would have been required to do the whole correctly in the beginning.

   • 1968, Gardner Lindzey, Elliot Aronson, The Handbook of Social Psychology: Research methods, page 237:

     Carelessness may be manifested in unduly brief replies to open questions or projective stimuli, and in hasty reading of closed questions, resulting in mischecks or random responses or position habits. It is likely that carelessness is substantially attributable to the particular conditions of rapport which surround the test taking.

   • 1980, California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs, page 8:

     On redirect Officer Williams indicated it was a mischeck.

2. A check pattern that has an error in it.
   • 1910, Textile World - Volume 39, page 400:

     […] and these looms ran continuously, automatically changing from an almost empty bobbin to a filled bobbin, making no mischecks in the pattern, or mispicks from a moving filling thread.

3. An instance of checking or inspecting that was inaccurate.
   • 1995, Esakia, page 190:

     Actually some vulsum females were admixed in paratype specimens, certainly by careless mischeck of vein tc 2.

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