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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misprint
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the last sentence, "unclear" is a misprint for "nuclear".
▪ It can't really cost £20 - it must be a misprint.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this.
▪ Galway might be a misprint for Galloway, so that the herd was in fact White Galloways.
▪ Greater care, also, in the proofreading would have prevented a number of misprints in the presentation material.
▪ I thought it must have been a misprint.
▪ It's always risky writing about misprints.
▪ So here, and it comes out even in the misprints.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
misprint

misprint \mis"print\ (m[i^]s"pr[i^]nt), n. A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misprint

late 15c.; from mis- (1) + print (v.). Related: misprinted; misprinting. The noun is first attested 1818.

Wiktionary
misprint

n. An accidental mistake in print. vb. To make a misprint.

WordNet
misprint

  1. n. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]

  2. v. print incorrectly

Usage examples of "misprint".

If you sell a story to a magazine you may feel it is incompetently illustrated, or dislike the blurb, or worry about misprints.

In the 2nd edition, 1839, streams appears--no doubt a misprint overlooked by the editress.

Tallboy corrected the misprints, damned their eyes for using the wrong name-block, made it clear to them that they had set the headlines in the wrong fount, cut the proof to pieces, pasted it up again into the correct size and returned it.

Besides, the type was not elegant, the margins were poor, the paper common, and misprints not infrequent.

It is also full of illiteracies and misprints ("A schematic illustration of the blast wave is shown in the neat page?

The misprinted cover makes the book somewhat valuable, but now… look at this…"

Directly behind Remo, a bullet hole smoldered through a stack of school notebooks with lines misprinted diagonally down the page.

The thing looked like the revolting result of a misprinted copy of AC/DC sado-maso Comix, thought Sergeant Bill of Phigerinadon II.

New chapters are sometimes made to begin in the middle of a sentence, and in addition to simple misprints there are numerous passages in which it is impossible to believe that we have the text as Malory intended it to stand.

Obvious misprints have been silently corrected, but in a few cases notes show where emendations have been introduced from Wynkyn de Worde--not that Wynkyn had any more right to emend Caxton than we, but because even a printer's conjecture gains a little sanctity after four centuries.

Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.