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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
misread en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- (Southern-England) audio
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈmɪs.ɹiːd/
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”).
Meanings
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An instance of reading wrongly.
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.
2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket:Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.
1983, Lawrence Calmus, The business guide to small computers, page 143:
Forms
misread en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /mɪsˈɹɛd/ (past)
- (Southern-England) audio
- (Southern-England) audio
- /mɪsˈɹiːd/ (present)
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”).
Meanings
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To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
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.
2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146:Now I'm in / over my head, with something I said. / Completely misread I'm better off dead.
2002, “Over My Head (Better Off Dead)”, in Does This Look Infected? (CD), performed by Sum 41, Island Records, via YouTube, →OCLC: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.”
2022 October 24, Eve Fairbanks, “Why Wasn’t I Canceled?”, in The Atlantic: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.
1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:
Forms
Deriveds
misreadable · misreader
Translations (12)
de falsch deuten (to read wrongly) · de falsch verstehen (to read wrongly) · de missverstehen (to read wrongly) · ru непра́вильно прочита́ть (to read wrongly) · io misinterpretar (to read wrongly) · cmn 讀錯 /读错 (to read wrongly) · tr yanlış okumak (to read wrongly) · fi lukea väärin (to read wrongly) · ja 誤読する (to read wrongly) · gv meelhaih (to read wrongly) · de falsch lesen (to read wrongly) · es malinterpretar (to read wrongly)