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To incorrectly mark the position of.
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I believe that M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman, for example, all miss or misplot Wordsworth's position on the crucial intellectual axes represented by Burke and Rousseau.
If the doctor is not familiar with the dermatome patterns, he may misplot the dermatome areas, and the test may be either a false positive or a false negative.
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They implanted viruses that would make the systems report aircraft where none existed, hide some aircraft that were airborne, and misplot the positions and altitude of other aircraft.
And I take real care if I am crossing the Greenwich meridian or the equator, when the scale reverses: it is incredibly easy to misplot a position.
To make an error in planning a trajectory or route.
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Mr. O'Hara, athlete that he was, misplotted his course and plunged into the well.
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It is amazing how easy it is, in the distracting environment of a boat under way, to misplot a bearing by 10°; to write down the wrong time for something; to misidentify charted features used for range; to copy the wrong number out of a table.
One day Connie Mayers is at point doing 'recky' while the squad is going over the central highlands, but somehow he has misplotted the course.
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You did not misread the map, nor did you misplot your course.
To make a mistake in forming a course of action or storyline.
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And now and then we find a great idea, misplotted and half told.
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By contrast Levin's sequel, Rosemary's Son (1997), is an ill-conceived and misplotted attempt to imagine the future that awaits Rosemary's baby at the dawn of the millennium.
If we misplot ourselves, no doubt we will mislive ourselves; but we are storied creatures.
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As James miscast Adam Verver for his role, so has James's role, it strikes me, been misplotted for him.
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An instance of misplotting.
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A misplot of ship position is the most frequently made plotting error .
A printout of individuals too far from block's center enabled me to eliminate obvious misplots.
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Of the four locations which turned out not to be cultural, two were small rock outcrops shaped like the blinds that had been positively identified on the aerials, one was a total bust and one may have been a misplot on the topographic map since a large blind was located about 150 meters northwest of the photo location.
The point on the graph should be marked with a small but noticeable dot ○ drawn with a pencil, not an ink pen, to allow correction of misplots.
A plot error; an inconsistency or mistake in creating a storyline.
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Some, who read this, may not know what the crowning misplot was, and it will bear mentioning.