misread
misread
Definition
mis·read (-rēd′)
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·read′-red′, -·read′·ing-rēd′iŋ
to read wrongly, esp. so as to misinterpret or misunderstand
misread
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- text: Like Josh, he has a fine rapport with his audience which enabled him to ride one amusing misreading of the text.
- evidence: My observation is that we often act pragmatically on a misreading of the evidence.
- word: There was thus never any misreading of the words " Judentransport aus Berlin.
- material: She says they base their work on a ' misreading of historical materials ' and that they ' get it wrong ' .
- book: This may be a misreading of the book, and in any case, the genetic and the social are two different areas.
Object
- situation: It may be that I have misread the present situation.
- instruction: A prison released a 22-year-old Swedish petty thief early after misreading instructions.
- sign: He alone had not misread the signs of the times but the whole order had.
- word: He read too fast, or too slow, or misread words, or skipped them altogether.
- question: If I'd misread the question and the price was there anyway then the most I'd lose would be 1 mark.
- text: I say this because the OCR process, although generally very accurate, occassionally misreads text.
Used with why or when
- what: But this is to misread what actually happened in Northern Ireland.
- when: The lowercase tall S was probably misread when the bell was transcribed.
Modifying Another Word
- completely: Also, the article was seen by the great and good of Lynton, and, as I had predicted, was completely misread.
- often: With reading they may be hesitant and often misread words and with writing they may have erratic spelling and tendency to reverse letters.
- n't: Be sure the player has n't misread the key signature.
- not: I have not misread the pointer of the scales to cheat the buyer.
- totally: Well, that's to totally misread this book: this number along with many of the numbers in Revelation is symbolic.
- obviously: Mary Margaret had obviously misread the weather and had stoked up a roaring fire.
Browse dictionary entries near misread
- misquote
- mispronunciation
- mispronounce
- misprize
- misprision of felony (or treason)
- misprision of felony
- misprision
- misprint
- misprice
- mispleading
- misreckon
- misremember
- misreport
- misrepresent
- misrepresentation
- misrule
- miss
- missal
- missay
- missed
