misring

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ ring

Verb

misring (third-person singular simple present misrings, present participle misringing, simple past misrang, past participle misrung)

1. To enter an incorrect amount into a cash register.
   • 1982, Kristine Marie Gabe, Supermarket Checkout Accuracy, page 4:

     It also eliminates the chances of misringing the price but not the possibility of entering the wrong PLU code.

   • 1984, Federal Supplement - Volume 575, page 1052:

     On a $19.24 order, Rose again failed to ring up a bottle deposit and misrang the price of ice cream for a total loss of $1.30.

   • 1993, Read Hayes, Employee Theft Control, page 13:

     Also , ensure that cash register clerks remain alert to avoid misringing items.

   • 2015, Bobby Crace, Full Breakdown:

     Shaken, he misrung cash into the register something he'd have to make up for or his money would be off;

   • 2021, Jamie Pacton, Lucky Girl:

     His face got redder with each messed-up transaction, and he swore under his breath. “Sorry, sorry,” he'd call out, as he mis-rang another item.

2. To ring (a bell or set of bells) incorrectly, at the wrong time, out of sequence, etc.
   • 1956, Roy Pascal, The German Novel:

     To his heroes, who have followed the misringing of this bell, the world seems senseless, but coherent; men are bent purposeively on some pursuit, but the purpose is inscrutable.

   • 1964, Eric Hatch, The Little Book of Bells, page 80:

     I have wondered greatly about this and have at last come to believe that neither time, mishanging, nor misringing weakened the Liberty Bell, but rather the enormous importance of the message its voice cried out.

   • 1971, James Joyce Quarterly - Volumes 9-10, page 263:

     It is virtually impossible to hear such a weirdly textured tonal array without hearing at the same time the “patterns” of sound ( or “non-patterns” when the bells are misrung), defined as successions of instants in time, or more specifically, as what occurs acoustically between one point in time and another.

   • 1974, Victor Plarr, The Collected Poems of Victor Plarr, page 132:

     Bring forth the dear flags hidden long, Ring all ye bells for years misrung: O, Alsace, be one burst of song, One nosegay to our Frenchmen flung!

   • 2020, János Székely, Temptation:

     My heart was beating like a mis-rung bell.

Noun

misring (plural misrings)

1. An instance of misringing
   1. The act of entering an incorrect amount into a cash register.
      • 1976, Industrial Engineering, page 11:

        Misrings are caused by a myriad of factors: price illegibility, incorrect pricing, checker pilferage (discounting or sweethearting), tax lookup errors, change making errors, and human errors.

      • 1988, Robert O. Herrmann, Consumer Choice in the American Economy, page 87:

        The study found misrings in 21 percent of the grocery store purchases checked.

      • 1998, Barry Berman, Joel R. Evans, Retail Management: A Strategic Approach, page 408:

        Cashiers can be judged on the basis of transaction speed and misrings; buyers can be judged on the basis of department revenues and the use of markdowns; and senior executives can be judged on the basis of the firm's reaching sales and profit goals.

   2. The act of misringing a bell.
      • 1989, The Musical Mainstream - Volumes 13-14, page 31:

        The result isn't exactly music, but it's truly satisfying for the ringers when, for instance, seven of them complete 5,040 “changes” without a single misring.