missignal

present singular third person missignals · US participle present missignaling · UK participle present missignalling · US participle past missignaled · US past missignaled · UK participle past missignalled · UK past missignalled · alternative mis-signal

1. transitiveTo signal wrongly or in error

   False start II does not actively mis-signal what the new chapter is about.

   2003, Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD

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   These problems refer to difficulties incurred when a staff member ( or members ) becomes confused in interaction and either missignals or gives confusing signals as to social role.

   1980, Duane S. Bishop, Behavioral Problems and the Disabled: Assessment and Management, page 368

   At birth genitals are thus viewed as symbolically and literally revealing the truth of gender. At no time are the connections between genitals and gender more evident than when the genitalia of an infant either do not signal or else missignal sex.

   2008, Katrina Karkazis, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

plural missignals · alternative mis-signal

1. A bad or incorrect signal

   Is the signalling problem a reason not to pursue the policy, or is it a reason to deal with how to prevent the missignal by means of adequate disclosure?

   1991, Steve H. Hanke, Alan Arthur Walters, Capital Markets and Development

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   There was a missignal on the goal line and Newhall having no one to pass the ball to stuck it under his arm and made a successful quarter back run for a touch down.

   1994, Bill Reid, Ronald Austin Smith, Big-time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid

   However, government intervention in asset prices such as stocks and bonds destroys the most powerful signals the economy generates and instead creates artificial missignals, thus distorting incentives.

   2016, Pippa Malmgren, Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy