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MISMATCHING

Date "MISMATCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)


Specialty Definition: MISMATCHING

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

A deliberate choice of mismatch. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

In assembling veneers, a lack of symmetry as regards the figure, grain, colour, etc. , of adjacent pieces. Source: European Union. (references)
 The imperfect alignment or fit at a joint between two adjoining pieces of timber worked to the same nominal cross-section. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MISMATCHING

Specialty definitions using "MISMATCHING": Base Pair Mismatch. (references)

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Usage Frequency: MISMATCHING

"MISMATCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "MISMATCHING" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)50%3202,518
Noun (singular)33.33%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)16.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MISMATCHING

Language Translations for "MISMATCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gab (General agreements to Borrow, General Arrangement to Borrow), fejltilpasning (mismatch), fejlparring. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

misaanpassing (mismatch), verkeerde samenvoeging, foutieve samenstelling. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

epäsovitus. (various references)

   

French

  

disposition dépareillée, disjonction, désadaptation (mismatch). (various references)

   

German

  

falsch anpassend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακή προσαρμογή,κακή συναρμογή, κακή προσαρμογή (mismatch), τυχαία συναρμογή. (various references)

   

Italian

  

squilibrio temporale, impiallacciatura asimmetrica, disadattamento (maladjustment), disaccoppiamento, aggiustamento difettoso. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ismatchingmay

   

Portuguese

  

disposição desemparelhada/desirmanada, disjunção (disjunction), desadaptacao (mismatch). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рассогласование (misalignment, off-calibration, unbalance). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desequilibrado (lopsided, off one's balance, one sided, unbalanced, unreasonable), desajuste (breakdown, disarrangement, gap, maladjustment). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

missanpassning (mismatch), felanpassning (mismatch). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MISMATCHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-m-m-n-s-t"

-2 letters: machinist, misacting, mismating.

-3 letters: actinism, giantism, histamin, isthmian, itchings, matching, minicams, mismatch, scamming, scathing, shamming, shimming, thiamins.

-4 letters: actings, animism, animist, cashing, casting, chasing, chiasmi, chiming, chitins, gnathic, hamming, hasting, histing, imagism, imagist, insight, intimas, isthmic, itching, maiming, mashing, masting, matings, miasmic, miching, minicam, misting, santimi, shaming, smiting, tachism, tahinis, thiamin, timings.

-5 letters: aching.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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