Crossword clues for mistime
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistime \Mis*time"\, v. t. [AS. mist[=i]main to turn out ill.] To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To do at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events.
WordNet
v. time incorrectly; "She mistimed the marathon runner"
Usage examples of "mistime".
She certainly preferred a letter to a mistimed telephone call, for the family, when far away as they were all far away now, were not at all adept at calculating the difference in hours between their time zones and her own-even when earlier, holding and rotating apples plucked from the epergne, they attempted to work out which way it was the globe turned and whether they should add or subtract a three or a six or a twelve from the local time told on their wristwatch faces.
Ostia had mistimed things so badly that he had allowed the barges an extra trip upstream to Tuder and Ocriculum, where the Tiber Valley harvest was demanding transportation downstream to Rome.
Martin kicked out unexpectedly and the warrior ducked, causing him to mistime his blow.
The men stood again and pulled their triggers, so that a stuttering mistimed volley flamed in the dusk.
He had read about but never experienced the chill in the air, the cunning onset of dark, the sight of white villages, of animals seeking their nighttime roosts or holes, of nocturnal creatures stirring in the fugitive gloom, the general motivating tendency being one of rapid physical adaptation to a mistimed event.
If the explosions had been mistimed or badly aimed, they were screwed.
Their grappling took place in even slower motion than it had before, a film of reaching and mistimed grips, and they murmured and cursed, hanging on.
They left two days later but mistimed their departure and had to cool their heels in the mouth of the cavern until nightfall.
As he reached the next expanse of sand, he mistimed his jump from the last rock and landed poorly.
Fear was whipping inside him, the fear that he had mistimed this charge and that the enemy would have a volley ready just yards before the redcoats struck home, but he was committed now, and he ran as hard as he could to break into the white-coated ranks before the volley came.
They were starting on some Saturday afternoon excursion, and had mistimed their train.
Fear was whipping inside him, the fear that he had mistimed this charge and that the enemy would have a volley ready just yards before the redcoats struck home, but he was committed now, and he ran as hard as he could to break into the white-coated ranks before the volley came.
Whole flotillas had mistimed their emergences, leaving gaping holes in the neat intervals of his command.
Isuas drops her dagger when she mistimes a parry and suddenly finds herself at a disadvantage.
A misjudged order, one mistiming, a swing of the tide-race, and Trout would be jammed against the sand-bars and wolfish breakers.