Mistake

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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. Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
  • noun. surely; without fail.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An error; a blunder.
  • noun. 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. To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
  • verb. To make an error, to do something in a wrong way.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "With regard to the _designed mistake_, my defence is that no mistake was made by me either _designed_ or _not designed_."
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    Ache  Blake  Drake  Haik  Jake  
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    bad job  bevue  bloomer  blooper  blunder  
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    mistaken  mistook  
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