misclean

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ clean.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈkliːn/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪskliːn/

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Verb

misclean (third-person singular simple present miscleans, present participle miscleaning, simple past and past participle miscleaned)

1. To clean improperly.
   • 1953, American Society for Quality Control, Annual Technical Conference Transactions:

     No amount of pre-evaluation that we can carry out will completely avoid or prevent customer complaints because for every kind of consumer use we can forecase the actual consumer can find many more ways of straining, misusing, miscleaning, and otherwise mistreating merchandise.

   • 2013 November, Youcef Shahali, Andrea Brazdova, Michel Calleja, Denis Charpin, Hélène Sénéchal, Pascal Poncet, “Indoor, long-term persistence of cypress pollen allergenic potency: a 10-month study”, in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, volume 111, number 5:

     In an indoor environment, areas that are more out of site, such as those below or above certain home furniture, are often miscleaned for a long period.

   • 2017, Jerome Klosowski, Sealants in Construction, page 1-52:

     Was it the sealant supplier who sold a product that hardened too much with age, or was it the applicator who miscleaned or poorly primed the joint that led to the adhesive failure?

Noun

misclean (plural miscleans)

1. A defect in printing fabric that arises from improperly cleaning the rollers that apply the ink, leaving unintended marks on the fabric.
   • 1948, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of South Carolina, page 498:

     Defects are commonly of great variety and are described as holes, missing color, oil, white scrimp, misclean, out of fit (where the pattern is out of line), grey black scrimp, snap, stick in, hair line, color streak, color spot, roller scratches, torn selvage, and chatter (where thelines come horizontal in the printing).

   • 1955, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 278:

     On the next day, another misclean of approximately 750 yards was discovered on Gregory's machine while no one was in attendance at his post.

Anagrams

• Anselmic, mansicle, melanics, meniscal, mescalin