See misnomer on Wiktionary
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{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use of term that is misleading",
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"sense": "use of term that is misleading",
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],
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "use of term that is misleading",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use of term that is misleading",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "use of term that is misleading",
"word": "yanlış adlandırma"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "use of term that is misleading",
"word": "uygunsuz adlandırma"
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"sense": "misleading term"
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"sense": "misleading term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "irreführende Bezeichnung"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "misleading term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ακυριολεξία"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "misleading term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "denominazione impropria"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "goshō",
"sense": "misleading term",
"word": "誤称"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "harhaanjohtava käsite (\"käsite\" may be replaced with termi, sana, sanonta, ilmaus etc.)",
"sense": "term whose sense in common usage conflicts with a technical sense"
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"To use a misleading term; to misname."
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