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to miscopy

to miscopy

7.4
To write something from another text with mistakes
  • verb
  • /ˌmɪsˈkɑːpi/
translation icon : copiar incorrectamente
  • "And the big fear in the penmanship arena was that national security itself might be threatened by mistranslated, miscopied documents—absolutely not acceptable in the world of nuclear weapons development or espionage.

Examples

  • 17: M seems to have misremembered or miscopied the location of the reference to Martha, which should be Luke 10:41.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • However, as the division proceeds, genetic information can be miscopied, thereby creating a mutant cell.

    Academic text (1992)
  • She found she'd miscopied the amount of interest income and erased it carefully.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • She realized she had miscopy the phone number on the invitation, leading guests to the wrong address.

  • The editor had to double-check the manuscript because he miscopy several important dates.

  • If you miscopy the instructions, you might not assemble the furniture correctly.

Synonyms

to mistype
vsto miscopy
1 2.9

To press the wrong key when you write on a keyboard

reproduces material inaccurately in many ways not only by input errors
to misprint
vsto miscopy
1 3.2

To put a wrong name or number in a text

reproduces material inaccurately rather than causing production stage faults
to miswrite
vsto miscopy
4.3

Write something wrong, for example a wrong date or phone number

reproduces existing material inaccurately rather than creating from scratch

Antonyms

1 2.8

Write or type something exactly as it looks in another place

How Accurate

to copy
328 1.0
to miscopy
7.4
to garble
8 8.0

Surface Forms

miscopy infinitive
miscopied past
miscopied past participle
miscopying present participle
miscopies third person singular

Morphology

miscopy = copy (transparent) = mis + copy

The verb is a simple prefixation: 'mis-' (incorrectly) + 'copy' yields 'to copy incorrectly', which is semantically direct.

Etymology

Miscopy is formed from mis- 'wrong' and copy 'to copy', so to miscopy something is to copy it incorrectly or make a wrong copy.