Mistake meaning
The definition of a mistake is an error or misunderstanding.
An example of mistake is adding 25 and 32 and getting 51.
noun
Mistake is defined as to misinterpret or to confuse someone with another person.
An example of mistake is for a person to think he sees his brother, when it is actually a stranger.
verb
An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
noun
To understand wrongly; misinterpret.
Mistook my politeness for friendliness.
verb
A mistake by only one party to a contract as to the underlying facts of the agreement, not generally a basis for avoiding the contract.
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A misconception or misunderstanding.
noun
To recognize or identify incorrectly.
He mistook her for her sister.
verb
To make a mistake; err.
verb
To understand or perceive wrongly; interpret or judge incorrectly.
Mistake someone's motives.
verb
To take (someone or something) to be another; recognize or identify incorrectly.
To mistake one twin for the other.
verb
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To make a mistake.
verb
A fault in understanding, perception, interpretation, etc.
noun
An idea, answer, act, etc. that is wrong; error.
noun
In contract law, a factual misunderstanding that may lead to a failure of a meeting of the minds.
noun
Improper understanding of a fact that is material to a contract.
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Improper understanding of the law as applied to facts as to which a party has a correct and full understanding.
A mistake in which each party has an incorrect understanding of the other’s position, or in which both parties share the same mistaken belief, generally a basis for canceling the contract.
(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place.
noun
To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
verb
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and no mistake
- Certainly.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of mistake
- From Middle English mistaken to misunderstand from Old Norse mistaka to take in error mis- wrongly mei-1 in Indo-European roots taka to take
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry")
From Wiktionary