Misfigure

/mɪsˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/ · verb

Meaning

To miscalculate; to make a computational error..

Definitions by Sense

1. To miscalculate; to make a computational error.
2. To make an incorrect assessment.
3. To misrepresent or disguise.
4. To disfigure.
5. (optics) To err in the manufacture of an optical surface so that it causes distortions.
6. An incorrect figure.
7. (optics) The misfigured portion of an optical surface, or the presence of such a portion.

Example Sentences

But you make another mistake — you misfigure dates again — and you've got something more to answer for.

You're a Gray-Area Misfigurer when you misfigure accidentally on purpose. Say your 100 shares of a $20 stock go up to $22, so you claim bragging rights to 10% profits. However, when you figure in commission, your shares really cost more like $2,050.

You might argue about letting borderline students squeak through some courses, but who wants a nurse who misfigures her meds?

"Now, see here, mister, you get right back into that brush, a bargain's a bargain and you're not near the tree yet." “But I'se jest—” “Never mind now, you just misfigured a trifle, that's all, and I stay in the open till the tree is reached.”

And they did and the end began, and all Winkler 's words couldn't stop it: "Even prophets can misfigure, but the Vision's still true. Christ's still coming . Why leave; life's good here. "

Carter press secretary Jody Powell conceded that “we completely misfigured Ford's ability to pull off his 'Rose Garden campaign.' That was really a surprise to us. They've worked that to perfection.”

If M W, at any time seemes to make some slender explication of himselfe in some of these particulars, he soone misfigures againe his owne expression with words of manifest inconsistency therewith: so that the setled judgement of the Author in the Question controverted, must be some where else inquired after, then in his discourse: This I can say of mine own knowledge, that when I was with him, pressing him to know, whither by righteoousnesse of Christ (in his opinion) he meant the righteousnesse of his nature, consisting of inward habits or dispositions of grace and holinesse; or the righteousnesse of his life, consisting of those righteous acts, which he performed in obedience to the Law of God, or whither he included them both, he absolutely denied, that he meant either the one or the other, or both together.

He may misfigure hissen next time as he likes, I shall knaw him.

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• misfigures
• misfiguring
• misfigured

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