See misstring on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "mis", "3": "string" }, "expansion": "mis- + string", "name": "prefix" } ], "etymology_text": "From mis- + string.", "forms": [ { "form": "misstrings", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "misstringing", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "misstrung", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "misstrung", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "misstrings", "2": "misstringing", "3": "misstrung" }, "expansion": "misstring (third-person singular simple present misstrings, present participle misstringing, simple past and past participle misstrung)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms prefixed with mis-", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1989, Threads Magazine - Issues 20-25, page 67:", "text": "If you've misstrung a bead in the middle of a row, you can break it with the pliers, but grab it sideways at the holes above the weft, not from top to.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1998 Spring, Marcel Kinsbourne, “Unity and diversity in the human brain: evidence from injury”, in Daedalus, volume 127, number 2:", "text": "Percepts do not appear to be strung together, because brain damaged patients do not report them to be misstrung (say, a cat with paws protruding from its head and its ears on its tail).", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2022, Corinne T. Field, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, The Global History of Black Girlhood:", "text": "These days, our two-part harmony feels more like a single instrument misstrung in the caught breath of a connoisseur.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To string incorrectly." ], "links": [ [ "string", "string" ] ] } ], "word": "misstring" }
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