Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To date (a document or event, for example) inaccurately.
- noun An inaccurate date.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To date erroneously; give a false or wrong date to.
- noun A wrong date.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put a false or erroneous date on (a document).
- transitive verb To assign an incorrect date to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A wrong date.
- verb To
date incorrectly; to mark with the wrong date.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb assign the wrong date to
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the last X number of years is missing, it would be possible to misdate the core by shifting it to the right in the plot above.
Juckes, Yang, Thompson and PNAS: Guliya « Climate Audit 2006
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Some companies engaged in a systematic effort to misdate options and hide the expense from investors.
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That Lenz should misdate Beethoven's visit to Berlin is not strange; that Marx, a Berliner, should, is.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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In addition, particularly when the overall survey instrument is quite long such as in the DHS, interviewers may misdate events to avoid having to ask further questions about a particular child In contrast, a minimum of only two items are required for a summary birth history: the number of children ever born and the number who have died (and potentially, the month and year of the mother's first birth).
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Julie Knoll Rajaratnam et al. 2010
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In addition, particularly when the overall survey instrument is quite long such as in the DHS, interviewers may misdate events to avoid having to ask further questions about a particular child
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Julie Knoll Rajaratnam et al. 2010
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