Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To set amiss; place wrongly.
  • Out of humor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To set or place wrongly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To set, adjust or calibrate something incorrectly
  • verb To place something in the wrong location
  • adjective Incorrectly set

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

mis- +‎ set

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Examples

  • Adams evidently didn't know how the characters' South Asian names should be accented, and consequently, he consistently misset one of them

    All Alone Lisa Hirsch 2007

  • A friend who is in a position to know tells me that Adams evidently didn't know how the characters' South Asian names should be accented, and consequently, he consistently misset one of them.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Lisa Hirsch 2007

  • A friend who is in a position to know tells me that Adams evidently didn't know how the characters' South Asian names should be accented, and consequently, he consistently misset one of them.

    All Alone Lisa Hirsch 2007

  • For that matter, there's an odd section on page 104 where I ran into four English words that were all completely new to me - like replevined, rondel, misset and waddy.

    Cities of the Plain: Volume III of the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy 2003

  • In addition, running long batches was thought to improve quality by minimizing opportunities to misset machines and by keeping operators focused on the operation itself rather than changeovers.

    Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003

  • Set up procmail spam filtering on the new shell, and the quiet of the lack of junk mail is welcome - have one rule I seem to have misset, as I'm still getting mail from that person.

    randomness and scattered updates badger 2002

  • Secondly, although I'd been fairly diligent about writing down the individual settings for the effects, one disadvantage of analog gear is the fairly drastic change in tone even a slight misset can make: for example, the sweep setting on a Bigbriar phaser.

    more death in the wards badger 2002

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