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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

misglue en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + glue.

Meanings

  1. To glue incorrectly.
    • After sufficient production had been made to do a worthwhile study, it was discovered that a significant number of seats were being misglued by the robot. 1984, David M. Osborne, Robots: The Application of Robots to Practical Work, page 95:
    • The passage of the Old Tibetan Chronicle is misplaced or rather 'misglued', see Uray 1968: 289– 299. 2019, Volker Caumanns, Marta Sernesi, Nikolai Solmsdorf, Unearthing Himalayan Treasures, page 450:
    • he is likely to evaluate how well he understands each step before executing it; he may well reread multicomponent steps many times lest he make a mistake and misglue pieces. 2014, Po-Zen Wong, Bernice Wong, Learning About Learning Disabilities, page 289:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
misglued Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misglued Tense=Past lexicographic
misgluing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misglueing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part uncommon lexicographic
misglues Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic