mistransmit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To transmit incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "Also, you may be too far from the sending radio station for good reception; radio equipment does break down occasionally, and opertors do sometimes mistransmit or misreceive messages."
- "As I write these words I 'contract' my though into language and at the same time conceal, obscure, and mistransmit what I have to say."
- "It is sometimes suggested that only by following as closely as possible the performing intentions of the compser can we enable his "message" to come across, the implication being that to mistransmit what someone is intending to say by willfully ignoring his intended meaning is obviously a dereliction of one's duty to the truth."