misshoot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To shoot incorrectly (any sense).
noun
An instance of misshooting.
Example Sentences
- "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."