Word Meanings - MISADJUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. I. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to MISADJUST)

• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• ADJUSTAGE
  Adjustment.
• ADJUSTMENT
  Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham. 3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into
• THROWE
  A turning lathe.
• THROW-CROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• THROWING STICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds
• ADJUST
  to fit; fr. L. ad + juxta near; confused later with L. ad and justus just, right, whence F. ajuster to adjust. See Just, v. t. and cf. 1. To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• ADJUSTABLE
  Capable of being adjusted.
• ADJUSTER
  One who, or that which, adjusts.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• READJUST
  To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
• PREADJUSTMENT
  Previous adjustment.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• READJUSTER
  One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.
• SELF-ADJUSTING
  Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery. Self-adjusting bearing , a bearing which is supported in such
• TWO-THROW
  Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft.
• MISADJUST
  To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. I. Taylor.