miswrap

present singular third person miswraps · participle present miswrapping · participle past miswrapped · past miswrapped

1. ambitransitiveTo wrap incorrectly.

   The whole batch must have been miswrapped.

   2008, Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair, page 151

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   We speak carefully and thoughtfully when we say that we honestly believe that the homoganized is more of a menace to the Oregon dairyman than the miswrapping of tub butter.

   1908, Oregon. Dairy and Food Commissioner, Biennial Report, page 22

   This apparatus includes means for moving a wrapped ream of paper through stations where the wrapping is inspected, a label is applied, the location of the label is inspected, and any reams which are miswrapped or mislabeled are rejected while the properly wrapped and labeled reams are forwarded for further processing .

   1977, Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Chemistry

   Either Frankie's miswrapping my hands, or I'm not punching square.

   2004, Esquire - Volume 142, page 201

   First, certain join orderings may cause a ring to miswrap and contain multiple zeros (this is referred to as a loopy cycle [7]).

   2007, Jayanth Kumar Kannan, Matthew Chapman Caesar, Ion Stoica, Scott Shenker, On the Consistency of DHT-Based Routing

plural miswraps

1. An instance of miswrapping.

   Miswraps dropped to less than 1 per cent.

   1963, American Management Association. Administrative Services Division, Case Studies in Computer-based Management, page 8

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   Reason: he saved a "substantial" amount of money on production line costs: fewer miswraps and jams and faulty packs with the cellophane .

   1975, Package Engineering - Volume 20, pages 1975-37

   We had a chance to scrutinize the only other 9.4 copy, and while that one had a bit of a miswrap, with the white border showing at the left edge, this one is perfectly centered, with no dust shadows, no foxing. . . nothing that would get in the way of enjoying this pristine gem.

   2007, HCA Comics Dallas Auction Catalog #824, page 12