Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To print incorrectly.
- noun An error in printing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mistake in printing; a typographical error.
- To make an error in printing (something); print wrong.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book.
- transitive verb To print wrongly; to make a mistake in printing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
accidental mistake inprint . - verb To make a misprint.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb print incorrectly
- noun a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
Etymologies
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Examples
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Penguin Group Australia turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has cost it dearly.
Disinformation majestic 2010
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A one-word misprint has cost Australia's Penguin group thousands of dollars.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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A one-word misprint has cost Australia's Penguin group thousands of dollars.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Penguin Group Australia turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has cost it dearly.
Disinformation majestic 2010
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Okay, I don't call the inclusion of four incorrect lines of type a "misprint," I call it an "editorial mistake," but I was disappointed - because, for once, I had a question.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009
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Okay, I don't call the inclusion of four incorrect lines of type a "misprint," I call it an "editorial mistake," but I was disappointed - because, for once, I had a question.
Darn. Lisa Hirsch 2009
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The book is thirteen years old, and I'm still able to get first printings assuming that's not some kind of misprint as new items from our distributor.
Archive 2006-06-18 2006
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The book is thirteen years old, and I'm still able to get first printings assuming that's not some kind of misprint as new items from our distributor.
Archive 2006-06-18 2006
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Another kind of misprint which we see occasionally is the misplacement of some lines of type.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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Another kind of misprint which we see occasionally is the misplacement of some lines of type.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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