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miswire en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + wire.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To wire incorrectly.
    • Thus, when it happened on one occasion that the card readers were producing gibberish, the managers not only found the cause to be a miswired plug board, they also realized that they had stumbled onto a means for creating messages in cipher. 2005, Kenneth S. Stephens, Juran, Quality, and a Century of Improvement, page 186:

Forms

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miswired Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
miswired Tense=Past lexicographic
miswiring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
miswires Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (1)

sv felkoppla (to wire incorrectly)