misfill

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ fill

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈfɪl/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsfɪl/

Verb

misfill (third-person singular simple present misfills, present participle misfilling, simple past and past participle misfilled)

1. To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
   • 1992, Gerald Martin Bordman, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, page 256256:

     A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription.

   • 1996, Kenneth J. Neubeck, Davita Silfen Glasberg, Sociology: a critical approach, page 28:

     Mr. Miller, a man who once fixed dents in the fuselages of jets and felt pride in his craft whenever a plane soared overhead, darts between the counter and the food pickup shelf, back and forth, a hundred times a day, careful not to misfill an order.

   • 1998, New Mexico. Supreme Court, Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico, page 265:

     Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway.

2. To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.
   • 1953, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1217:

     As indeed it was, since Newell herself corrected all of the envelopes which Rushford had misfilled.

   • 2013, Paul Barash, Bruce F. Cullen, Robert K. Stoelting, Clinical Anesthesia:

     Vaporizers not equipped with keyed fillers have been occasionally misfilled with the wrong anesthetic liquid.

   • 2009, Milton Wright, edited by Timothy S. G. Binkley, A Higher Moral and Spiritual Stand: Selected Writings of Milton Wright, page 56:

     It depletes or demoralizes so many prayer-meetings, chills or misfills so many pulpits, and makes so many unworshipping choirs.

3. To enter the wrong information into.
   • 1922, Listen to These, page 230:

     The filling up of forms is not regarded as an especially amusing occupation, but the people who have to read the forms that you misfill when you insure your life get some fun to know the cause of death of your father and mother or if they are living.

   • 1953, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 6, page 27:

     The other point was on this question of accommodation of the Serjeant at Arms, which you rather suggested he gave up out of charity after it had been misfilled by the lobby correspondents?

   • 1980, Michel Georges Bougon, Schemata, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior, page 75:

     In turn, the behavior feeds back a sensory signal array that "fills out" the schema if properly executed, and "misfills it out" if misexecuted, hence allowing for error detection and correction.

   • 2000, Femi Ojo-Ade, The Almond Tree: A Novel, page 103:

     Or, perhaps, in a way, he wanted to stay with his old man and he therefore deliberately misfilled the forms.

Noun

misfill (plural misfills)

1. The act of misfilling a prescription, order, or requirement.
   • 1980, Helen Wetherbee, Bruce David White, Cases and Materials on Pharmacy Law, page 290:

     Do not pass the misfill off as some minor incident, but demonstrate to the customer that this does not frequently occur in your store and express your sincere apologies and try to make amends to the satisfaction of the customer.

   • 1998, New Mexico. Supreme Court, Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico, page 265:

     Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway.

   • 2015, Ruth E. Nemire, Karen L. Kier, Michelle T. Assa-Eley, Pharmacy Student Survival Guide, page 110:

     The pharmacist is careful not to comment on the misfill.

2. The act or result of misfilling a receptacle.
   • 1964, NASA Contractor Report - Issues 48-59:

     Misfills became more prevalent with lower casting temperatures , and this problem was not completely eliminated.

   • 1973, Soap, Cosmetics, Chemical Specialties - Volume 49, page 86:

     The machine will also remove valves with no damage to the can in case of error or misfill.

   • 1995, Allen Webster, Applied Statistics for Business and Economics, page 804:

     The test showed that an excessive number of underfills resulted in too few runs to assume misfills were random. The machine was apparently set too low and was adjusted.

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