miswire en · VERB
Etymology
From mis- + wire.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)