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Amiss vs Misyield - What's the difference?

amiss | misyield |

As nouns the difference between amiss and misyield

is that amiss is (obsolete) fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed while misyield is a bad, wrong, or incorrect yield or product.

As an adjective amiss

is wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

As an adverb amiss

is (archaic) mistakenly.

As a verb misyield is

to yield incorrectly, wrongly, badly, or amiss.

amiss

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
    • He suspected something was amiss .
    Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
  • * Wollaston
    • His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) Mistakenly
  • (archaic) Astray
  • (archaic) Wrongly.

    • Noun

    (amisses)
  • (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].
  • * 1635 , John Donne, "His parting from her":
    • Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].

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    misyield

    English

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    Verb

  • To yield incorrectly, wrongly, badly, or amiss.
  • *1990 , Michael Pollak, Sense & censorship :
    • He sternly criticised 'pygmean statesmen' who climbed the dizziest heights of power, inevitably resulting in 'misery for the mass', and he deplored the 'misyielding past' looking to the day when injustices would be turned around.
  • *2006 , Ben Finkelstein, The Politics of Public Fund Investing :
    • To appreciate how YTM can be “mis-yielding ,” (misleading), take a look at Exhibit 8-5, which examines a bond purchased at par with 6 percent YTM under varying reinvestment or interest rate assumptions.
  • *2010 , depression:
    • A lack of ability of can also advance some eyewitnesss to misyield the side effects of panic disorders to be a case of social anxiety or accomplishance anxiety.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bad, wrong, or incorrect yield or product.
  • *1943 , Königliche Preussische Landes-Oekonomie-Kollegium, Prussia (Germany). Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Domänen und Forsten, Germany. Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbücher :
    • On poorer medium soils mixed grain still gives a satisfactory yield where each single component, grown by itself, would often result in a misyield .
  • *1959 , H. Schranz, PROCESS OF REDUCING THE CONSISTENCY OF :
    • In the aforegoing examples the term "misyield " is employed to indicate that portion of the material treated which is not true sink or float material and is considered as a loss unless recycled.