Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To time inaccurately or inappropriately; misjudge the timing of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To time wrongly; say or do inopportunely or out of season.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To do at the wrong
time ; especially to misjudge thetiming of coordinated events.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb time incorrectly
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can hit that stretched-out receiver (or QB or kicker), but if you mistime it so you even breathe on him before his fingers touch the pigskin, pack.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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You can hit that stretched-out receiver (or QB or kicker), but if you mistime it so you even breathe on him before his fingers touch the pigskin, pack.
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The Fed and Treasury almost will certainly mistime their policies, which will do further damage to Treasury prices.
For Treasurys, It's All in the Timing Peter Eavis 2010
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The Fed and Treasury almost will certainly mistime their policies, which will do further damage to Treasury prices.
For Treasurys, It's All in the Timing Peter Eavis 2010
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The Fed and Treasury almost will certainly mistime their policies, which will do further damage to Treasury prices.
For Treasurys, It's All in the Timing Peter Eavis 2010
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Morse said he did not think the ball was headed out of the park -- as Riggleman contended -- and he said he did not mistime his leap -- as it appeared on television replays.
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The Fed and Treasury almost will certainly mistime their policies, which will do further damage to Treasury prices.
For Treasurys, It's All in the Timing Peter Eavis 2010
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On top of that, you can be smart and do your homework but mistime things by a month and lose all your chips.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So Just What Was the Omitted Intervention 2008
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They acted to profit as much as possible and assumed a certain amount of risk that they would mistime the bubble.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Flashback: Housing Bubble is Really a Credit Bubble: 2007
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Winterbells gets a little bit less cute when you mistime a jump and the fluffy rabbit falls to its death, but let's just brush over that bit, shall we?
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