Sekirov Dictionary

mistake

/mɪˈsteɪk/

noun 2
verb 4
forms 7
phrases 2

noun2

•
something done, said or thought in a wrong way, not on purpose
- There were too many mistakes in the test that, unfortunately, made you fail.
- He always made mistakes on purpose.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

verb4

•
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
- Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
•
(no longer used) To misunderstand (someone).
- Mistake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out. — 1595
•
(no longer used) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
- Impose me to what penance your inuention / Can lay vpon my sinne, yet sinn’d I not / But in mistaking. — 1598
•
(no longer used, rare) To take or choose wrongly.
- The better act of purposes mistook / Is to mistake again; though indirect, / Yet indirection thereby grows direct, — 1596

forms

mistaked · mistook · mistaken · mistaking · mistakes · mistaketh · mistakest

Phrases with mistake

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