misstage

From mis- +‎ stage.

misstage (third-person singular simple present misstages, present participle misstaging, simple past and past participle misstaged)

1. To stage improperly.
   • 1979, Chilton's Truck & Off-highway Industries, page 67:

     The lower end of each movable sleeve incorporates a flow control orifice plate to prevent rapid misstaging due to improper packing adjustment.

   • 1993 November 30, Jeffrey R. Williams, John C. Singer, “Apparatus for Indexing a Rack and Pinion Mechanism”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, volume 1156, number 5, page 2922:

     A switch apparatus for use in a motor vehicle, comprising: an elongate rack and having a plurality of rack teeth disposed thereon, said rack being axially reciprocal; a pinion adapted to matingly engage said rack; bore means for aligning said pinion relative to said rack along an axis generally perpendicular to the elongated rack in its direction of reciprocation; and means for preventing misstaging of said pinion relative to said rack.

   • 1999, Saso Dzeroski, Tomaž Erjavec, “Learning to Lemmatise Slovene Words”, in James Cussens, Saso Dzeroski, editors, Learning Language in Logic, volume 1925, page 82:

     In the validation set, there were 59 words misstaged as a noun or adjective, which is 1.5% of all the words or 4% of the total number of true nouns and adjectives in the Appendix.

   1. (medicine, biology) To assess incorrectly as belonging to a different stage than is actually the case
      • 1998, Morton A. Meyers, Neoplasms of the Digestive Tract, page 407:

        In the tumors that were misstaged, most errors occurred between stages T2 (overstaging) and T3 (understaging); in terms of therapeutic considerations, this distinction is more critical than that between stages T1 and T2.

      • 2008, Rocky S. Tuan, Cecilia W. Lo, Developmental Biology Protocols: Volume III, page 244:

        To do the work chapter, reproducible staging of chick embryos is required. When misstaging it will be impossible to repeat a given experiment.

      • 2014, Philip M Hanno, Thomas J. Guzzo, S. Bruce Malkowicz, Penn Clinical Manual of Urology, page 563:

        Despite this, CT urogram has been shown to misstage nearly 40% of patients.

      • 2015, Mihir S. Wagh, Peter V. Draganov, Pancreatic Masses: Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy, page 134:

        When Imazu et al. compared conventional EUS and contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS in terms of preoperative T-staging of pancreatobiliary tumors, they found that contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS correctly T-staged 24 of 26 pancreatobiliary tumors, six of which were misstaged by conventional EUS.

   2. (performing arts) To stage (a performance) badly.
      • 1971 March 1, John Simon, “The Sorcerer and His Apprentices”, in New York Magazine, volume 4, number 9, page 58:

        But Schneider has wantonly misstaged Lucky's monologue: instead of a recitation by rote of a travestied history of Western philosophy and religion that gradually disintegrates into chaos, we get a choppy set of starts and stops, as of a jalopy that cannot get into proper gear.

      • 1986, Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Conversations with Tennessee Williams, page 289:

        Out Cry is an example of why you feel your later plays are misstaged.

      • 2003, Alvin H. Marill, More Theatre: Stage to Screen to Television, 1993-2001, page 5:

        Gerald Freedman has misstaged the wryly titled musical, giving it no panache, sensitivity or style.

      • 2017, John Mauceri, Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting, page 234:

        The audience is left with an impossible decision: not only have they been sitting in the theater for too long, since they are hearing one and a half acts, they are being asked to applaud after a scene of brutality and sex, usually misstaged as a rape.