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misstage en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + stage.

Meanings

1. To stage improperly.
   • In the validation set, there were 59 words misstaged as a noun or adjective, which is 1.5% of all the words or 4% of the total number of true nouns and adjectives in the Appendix. 1999, Saso Dzeroski, Tomaž Erjavec, “Learning to Lemmatise Slovene Words”, in James Cussens, Saso Dzeroski, editors, Learning Language in Logic, volume 1925, page 82:
   • The lower end of each movable sleeve incorporates a flow control orifice plate to prevent rapid misstaging due to improper packing adjustment. 1979, Chilton's Truck & Off-highway Industries, page 67:
   • A switch apparatus for use in a motor vehicle, comprising: an elongate rack and having a plurality of rack teeth disposed thereon, said rack being axially reciprocal; a pinion adapted to matingly engage said rack; bore means for aligning said pinion relative to said rack along an axis generally perpendicular to the elongated rack in its direction of reciprocation; and means for preventing misstaging of said pinion relative to said rack. 1993 November 30, Jeffrey R. Williams, John C. Singer, “Apparatus for Indexing a Rack and Pinion Mechanism”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, volume 1156, number 5, page 2922:
2. To stage improperly. ▸ To assess incorrectly as belonging to a different stage than is actually the case
   • In the tumors that were misstaged, most errors occurred between stages T2 (overstaging) and T3 (understaging); in terms of therapeutic considerations, this distinction is more critical than that between stages T1 and T2. 1998, Morton A. Meyers, Neoplasms of the Digestive Tract, page 407:
   • To do the work chapter, reproducible staging of chick embryos is required. When misstaging it will be impossible to repeat a given experiment. 2008, Rocky S. Tuan, Cecilia W. Lo, Developmental Biology Protocols: Volume III, page 244:
   • When Imazu et al. compared conventional EUS and contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS in terms of preoperative T-staging of pancreatobiliary tumors, they found that contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS correctly T-staged 24 of 26 pancreatobiliary tumors, six of which were misstaged by conventional EUS. 2015, Mihir S. Wagh, Peter V. Draganov, Pancreatic Masses: Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy, page 134:
   • Despite this, CT urogram has been shown to misstage nearly 40% of patients. 2014, Philip M Hanno, Thomas J. Guzzo, S. Bruce Malkowicz, Penn Clinical Manual of Urology, page 563:
3. (qualifier:performing arts) To stage improperly. ▸ To stage (a performance) badly.
   • Out Cry is an example of why you feel your later plays are misstaged. 1986, Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Conversations with Tennessee Williams, page 289:
   • Gerald Freedman has misstaged the wryly titled musical, giving it no panache, sensitivity or style. 2003, Alvin H. Marill, More Theatre: Stage to Screen to Television, 1993-2001, page 5:
   • The audience is left with an impossible decision: not only have they been sitting in the theater for too long, since they are hearing one and a half acts, they are being asked to applaud after a scene of brutality and sex, usually misstaged as a rape. 2017, John Mauceri, Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting, page 234:
   • But Schneider has wantonly misstaged Lucky's monologue: instead of a recitation by rote of a travestied history of Western philosophy and religion that gradually disintegrates into chaos, we get a choppy set of starts and stops, as of a jalopy that cannot get into proper gear. 1971 March 1, John Simon, “The Sorcerer and His Apprentices”, in New York Magazine, volume 4, number 9, page 58:

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