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A misprint is a small mistake that got printed — a wrong letter, a missing word, a number typed wrong — in a book, a newspaper, a menu, a sign. It is a noun, and you use it kindly: nobody meant it, and everybody has seen one. The usual sentence is 'it must be a misprint' or 'there's a misprint on page four', said when a price or a date looks impossible. A misprint is specifically about printed things; that is where it differs from typo, which is the everyday word and now covers anything typed, including your phone messages. Typo is casual and very common; misprint sounds a touch older and more , and stays close to paper and ink. There is also a verb, to misprint, mostly used in the passive: 'his name was misprinted as Chan'. In publishing, if a misprint is bad enough, the publisher prints a correction — an .
印錯、誤植(書報上的錯字或錯的數字)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
misprintnoun/ˈmɪspɹɪnt/
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An accidental mistake in print.
- Near-synonyms: typo; lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ
- There is a misprint in the first print run: On page 42 where the character yells, "You're going to catch a cod if you spend all night fishing", the dialogue was meant to say, "You're going to catch a cold if you spend all night fishing."
misprintverb/mɪsˈpɹɪnt/
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To make a misprint.
- I misprinted his name on the invitation. He's called James, not Jambes.
- [...] the northbound trains involved are the 8.15 a.m. (not p.m. as misprinted last month) and 10.15 a.m. from Buchanan Street - [...].
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。