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miscue

/mis-kyoo/US // mɪsˈkyu //UK // (ˌmɪsˈkjuː) //

误区,混杂物,误判,杂项

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Sports. a failure to execute a play, stroke, or maneuver properly; an error.
    • : Informal. a mistake.
    • : Informal. to make a mistake.
    • : Theater. to fail to answer one's cue or to answer another's cue.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mis·cued, mis·cu·ing.

    • : to give the wrong cue to.

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Examples

  • Only one played in 2010, and that was Johnson, who tied for fifth after a singular miscue, a memorable two-shot penalty when he ground his club into a bunker after thinking it a waste area rather than a bunker.

  • Knizner sped by first and dug an extra 90 feet on the miscue.

  • It might be even more impressive that, in both cases, he has immediately followed those miscues with birdies.

  • By attempting a return, teams risk more miscues near their own end zone for little upside.

  • With each miscue the production has been relaunched, each time in the hope that it can dispel the previous bad reviews.

  • “C.,” who was painfully conscious that he might have made a miscue in the matter of the quotation, answered sharply.

  • Who originated this scheme of revising the Bible we do not know, but whoever it was made a miscue.

  • It hurts her more than anything to make a miscue on the charitable side.

  • You're no inventor, but you're always pretty handy in telling me where I make a miscue in my machines.

  • This effort is ruined by an appalling miscue which affects the new cloth.