单词 | misfitting |
释义 | > as lemmasmisˈfitting misˈfitting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > failure to fit misfitting1841 misfit1844 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > failing to fit misfitting1841 1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic II. xiv. 17 A kind of Chinese puzzle with a deficiency of pieces which he seeks to supply from his own misfitting stores. 1851 I. Taylor Wesley & Methodism 233 The misfitting of the twelve volumes [of Wesley's Writings] to the times current. 1935 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 30 254 Slight misfitting of the curve due to sampling variations would lead to large shifts in the calculated maxima and minima. 1994 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 22/3 The Government was borrowing and spending money as if they were no Monday. This gave us not one but two misfitting policies—one of them too loose and one too tight. < as lemmas |
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