"misshift" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + shift",
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      "form": "misshifts",
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      "form": "misshifting",
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      "form": "misshifted",
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      "form": "misshifted",
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          "ref": "1989, Trial Lawyers Quarterly - Volume 20, page 13",
          "text": "His expert testimony indicated that it would have been technologically feasible and economically viable to install a warning system, at a cost of between $20 to $50, that would cause a horn to go off and a light to flash on the shift indicator if the driver should misshift the vehicle or begin to leave it when the gear shift was not latched in park.",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Joe Kita, Bicycling Magazine's New Bike Owner's Guide, page 28",
          "text": "If you wait until later, your drivetrain is liable to misshift under the hard pedaling load.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Dave King, Michael Kaminer, The Mountain Bike Experience",
          "text": "This skill takes a while to develop, and even the best riders misshift from time to time, but with time shifting becomes second nature.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To change gears incorrectly, such as switching into the wrong gear or ending up in a state when the vehicle is not in gear."
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        {
          "ref": "1992, Stanford Exploration Project - Issue 73, page 195",
          "text": "After checking the original data, we found that this trace was misshifted in the original gather.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Fresno Scifi, Fantasy Writers, I Dreamed a Crooked Dream, page 198",
          "text": "\"You misshifted?” He takes several deep breaths. “Into what?” “A panther,” I whisper down into my plate.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Francisco Rebelo, Ergonomics in Design, page 515",
          "text": "By using this as a cue, it is thought that their sense of direction was less likely to misshift.",
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        "To change direction, location, or form incorrectly."
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  "etymology_text": "mis- + shift",
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          "ref": "2004, João Agria Torres, EUREF Publication No. 13, page 144",
          "text": "So, the eventual coordinate misshift should not be significant.",
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          "ref": "2006, Marla Streb, Bicycling Magazine's Century Training Program, page 176",
          "text": "A misshift or a dropped chain can really ruin your cadence and momentum.",
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          "ref": "2008, Chris Lemmon, A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father",
          "text": "Four misshifts and a throttle burp later, I couldn't stand it anymore, and made him surrender control of the vehicle.",
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          "ref": "2009, Francisco J. Ricardo, Literary Art in Digital Performance, page 182",
          "text": "These hyperliterary historical misshifts centered in the superheated technological and cultural engine of the US-centric English-speaking imperium.",
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          "text": "If you wait until later, your drivetrain is liable to misshift under the hard pedaling load.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Dave King, Michael Kaminer, The Mountain Bike Experience",
          "text": "This skill takes a while to develop, and even the best riders misshift from time to time, but with time shifting becomes second nature.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To change gears incorrectly, such as switching into the wrong gear or ending up in a state when the vehicle is not in gear."
      ],
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Fresno Scifi, Fantasy Writers, I Dreamed a Crooked Dream, page 198",
          "text": "\"You misshifted?” He takes several deep breaths. “Into what?” “A panther,” I whisper down into my plate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Francisco Rebelo, Ergonomics in Design, page 515",
          "text": "By using this as a cue, it is thought that their sense of direction was less likely to misshift.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To change direction, location, or form incorrectly."
      ],
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          "text": "So, the eventual coordinate misshift should not be significant.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Marla Streb, Bicycling Magazine's Century Training Program, page 176",
          "text": "A misshift or a dropped chain can really ruin your cadence and momentum.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Chris Lemmon, A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father",
          "text": "Four misshifts and a throttle burp later, I couldn't stand it anymore, and made him surrender control of the vehicle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Francisco J. Ricardo, Literary Art in Digital Performance, page 182",
          "text": "These hyperliterary historical misshifts centered in the superheated technological and cultural engine of the US-centric English-speaking imperium.",
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        }
      ],
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        "An instance of misshifting (either sense)."
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