misread

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.