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MISCUE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

Synonyms:

miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("miscue" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miscue"):

Freudian slip (a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("miscue" is a kind of...):

shot; stroke ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand)

Holonyms ("miscue" is a part of...):

billiards (any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls)

pocket billiards; pool (any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb miscue

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