"misread" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /mɪsˈɹiːd/ [present, verb], /mɪsˈɹɛd/ [participle, past, verb], /ˈmɪs.ɹiːd/ [noun] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misread.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misread2.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misread3.wav Forms: misreads [plural]
Rhymes: -iːd, -ɛd Etymology: From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + read. Cognate with Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”). For the noun, compare Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|misreden}} Middle English misreden, {{inh|en|ang|misrǣdan|t=to advise wrongly; read wrongly}} Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), {{pre|en|mis|read}} mis- + read, {{cog|stq|misräide|t=to go wrong, fail}} Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), {{cog|nl|misraden|t=to guess wrongly}} Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), {{cog|de|missraten|t=to fail; go wrong; become wayward}} German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”), {{cog|ang|misrǣd||misguidance; misconduct}} Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} misread (plural misreads)
  1. An instance of reading wrongly.
    Sense id: en-misread-en-noun-lT1tQHLF

Verb [English]

IPA: /mɪsˈɹiːd/ [present, verb], /mɪsˈɹɛd/ [participle, past, verb], /ˈmɪs.ɹiːd/ [noun] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misread.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misread2.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misread3.wav Forms: misreads [present, singular, third-person], misreading [participle, present], misread [participle, past], misread [past]
Rhymes: -iːd, -ɛd Etymology: From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + read. Cognate with Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”). For the noun, compare Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|misreden}} Middle English misreden, {{inh|en|ang|misrǣdan|t=to advise wrongly; read wrongly}} Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), {{pre|en|mis|read}} mis- + read, {{cog|stq|misräide|t=to go wrong, fail}} Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), {{cog|nl|misraden|t=to guess wrongly}} Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), {{cog|de|missraten|t=to fail; go wrong; become wayward}} German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”), {{cog|ang|misrǣd||misguidance; misconduct}} Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”) Head templates: {{en-verb|misreads|misreading|misread}} misread (third-person singular simple present misreads, present participle misreading, simple past and past participle misread)
  1. To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of. Derived forms: misreader Translations (to read wrongly): 讀錯 (Chinese Mandarin), 读错 (dúcuò) (Chinese Mandarin), lukea väärin (Finnish), falsch lesen (German), falsch deuten (German), falsch verstehen (German), missverstehen (German), misinterpretar (Ido), meelhaih (Manx), непра́вильно прочита́ть (neprávilʹno pročitátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), malinterpretar (Spanish), yanlış okumak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-misread-en-verb-KECVlhRe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English heteronyms, English terms prefixed with mis-, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Manx translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 29 71 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Manx translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 22 78

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Yet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy, with whom she deals every day, uncertain whether he is \"shy or dimwitted\" (19). Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.",
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          "text": "Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.",
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          "ref": "2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket",
          "text": "To bait the mark, the veteran grifter initially covers one of the three numbers on the clothespin or miscounts the marble tally which serves to award the mark fairbanked points. The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.",
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          "ref": "1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138",
          "text": "In the circumstances the Inspecting Officer concludes that the electric train motorman, despite his assertions to the contrary, misread the up main relief inner home signal for his own and ran past the up main through inner home signal at danger; he must therefore be held responsible for the accident.",
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          "ref": "2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146",
          "text": "Yet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy, with whom she deals every day, uncertain whether he is \"shy or dimwitted\" (19). Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.",
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          "ref": "2022 October 24, Eve Fairbanks, “Why Wasn’t I Canceled?”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "No South African believed it was possible—not to mention desirable—to write about the country’s white people without writing about its Black citizens; everybody’s self-understanding incorporates ideas proposed by people unlike themselves.“That doesn’t matter,” one of the editors told me, warning me I’d be “misread.”",
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      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "讀錯"
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      "roman": "dúcuò",
      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "读错"
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      "word": "lukea väärin"
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      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "falsch lesen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "falsch deuten"
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    {
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      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "falsch verstehen"
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      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "misinterpretar"
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      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "meelhaih"
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      "sense": "to read wrongly",
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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "malinterpretar"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to read wrongly",
      "word": "yanlış okumak"
    }
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}

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          "ref": "2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket",
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