Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
- noun A misconception or misunderstanding.
- intransitive verb To understand wrongly; misinterpret.
- intransitive verb To recognize or identify incorrectly.
- intransitive verb To make a mistake; err.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An error in action, opinion, or judgment; especially, misconception, misapprehension, or misunderstanding; an erroneous view, act, or omission, arising from ignorance, confusion, misplaced confidence, etc.; a slip; a fault; an error; a blunder.
- noun In law, an erroneous mental conception that influences the will and leads to action. Pomeroy.
- noun Synonyms Error, Bull, etc. See
blunder . - l. To take wrongly; appropriate erroneously or through misapprehension.
- To take or choose erroneously; choose amiss, as between alternatives; regard (something) as other than it is: as, to
mistake one's road or bearings; to mistake a fixed star for a planet. - To take in a wrong sense; conceive or understand erroneously; misunderstand; misjudge: as, to
mistake one's meaning or intentions. - To make a mistake; be in error; be wrong; misapprehend.
- To take a wrong part; transgress.
- To err in advice, opinion, or judgment; be under a misapprehension or misconception; be unintentionally in error.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or R. To take or choose wrongly.
- transitive verb To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive
- transitive verb To substitute in thought or perception.
- transitive verb To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
- intransitive verb To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
- noun An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
- noun (Law) Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
- noun [Low] surely; without fail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
error ; ablunder . - noun baseball A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place
- verb transitive To
understand wrongly , taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else. - verb transitive To make an
error , to do something in a wrong way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an understanding of something that is not correct
- noun a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- noun part of a statement that is not correct
- verb identify incorrectly
- verb to make a mistake or be incorrect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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With regard to the _designed mistake_, my defence is that no mistake was made by me either _designed_ or _not designed_.
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811
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In Gibbon v Mitchell (1990) 1 WLR 1304, Millett J reviewed many of the older authorities on mistake and held that for a person to set aside a voluntary transaction (such as the creation of a settlement) on the basis of mistake, that mistake had to refer to the effect of the transaction in question rather than its consequences.
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Their main mistake is to expect the people around them not just to like them, but to be like them, to display the same easy American manners, the same loving indulgence, despite the aching resentments of the war, the grinding poverty of life in Europe, and the inequalities in their situations as hosts and guests.
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So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also.
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So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also.
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So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also.
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So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also.
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So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also.
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So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also.
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When he wound down a bit I said "the mistake is yours, not his".
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