different between miscarry vs misconduct

English

Etymology

From Middle English miscarien, equivalent to mis- +? carry.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?m?s?kæ?i/
• Rhymes: -æ?i

Verb

miscarry (third-person singular simple present miscarries, present participle miscarrying, simple past and past participle miscarried)

1. (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm. [14th-18th c.]
2. (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong. [from 14th c.]
3. To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so. [from 16th c.]
4. To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.). [from 16th c.]
5. Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient. [from 16th c.]
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

     Sir Nathaniel, this Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried.

   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.1:

     It likewise alluded to several letters—which, it appeared to me, must have miscarried or been intercepted [...].

Derived terms

• miscarriage

Translations

English

Etymology 1

mis- +? conduct (noun sense)

Pronunciation

• (UK): enPR: m?s-k?n?d?kt, IPA^(key): /m?s?k?nd?kt/

Noun

misconduct (usually uncountable, plural misconducts)

1. behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.

   The student was threatened with a £2000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.

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Etymology 2

mis- +? conduct (verb sense)

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s-k?n-d?kt?, IPA^(key): /m?sk?n?d?kt/

Verb

misconduct (third-person singular simple present misconducts, present participle misconducting, simple past and past participle misconducted)

1. (transitive) To mismanage. [from 18th c.]
2. (reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave. [from 19th c.]
   • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal 1995, p. 224:

     It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.

3. (intransitive, rare) To act improperly.

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