mistake
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/mɪˈsteɪk/]
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Senses
1. mistake (verb) — sense 1
Definition: To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Example: Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
2. mistake (verb) — sense 2
Definition: To misunderstand (someone).
Example: Miſtake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out.
3. mistake (verb) — sense 3
Definition: To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
Example: Impoſe me to what penance your inuention / Can lay vpon my ſinne, yet ſinn’d I not / But in miſtaking.
4. mistake (noun) — sense 4
Definition: An error.
Example: There were too many mistakes in the test that, unfortunately, made you fail.
Concept: Ошибка
5. mistake (noun) — sense 5
Definition: A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
Connections
Polarities
Truth ↔ Error — concept «Ошибка»
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