mistake

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: mis=take
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

mistake, v. t. [Pref. mis- + take: cf. Icel. mistaka.].

•  To take or choose wrongly.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.  Locke.  [1913 Webster]

  "My father's purposes have been mistook."  [1913 Webster]
•  To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.  [1913 Webster]

  "A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it."  [1913 Webster]
•  To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.  [1913 Webster]

  "Mistake me not so much,
  To think my poverty is treacherous."  [1913 Webster]

mistake, v. i. 

 To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.  [1913 Webster]
"Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends."  [1913 Webster]

mistake, n. 

•  An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.  [1913 Webster]

  "Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake."  [1913 Webster]
•  Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.  [1913 Webster]

No mistake, surely; without fail; as, it will happen at the appointed time, and no mistake. [Low]

Syn. -- Blunder; error; bull. See Blunder.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mistake, n. & v.
--n.
1 an incorrect idea or opinion; a thing incorrectly done or thought.
2 an error of judgement.
--v.tr. (past mistook; past part. mistaken)
1 misunderstand the meaning or intention of (a person, a statement, etc.).
2 (foll. by for) wrongly take or identify (mistook me for you).
3 choose wrongly (mistake one's vocation).

Idiom

and (or make) no mistake colloq. undoubtedly. by mistake accidentally; in error. there is no mistaking one is sure to recognize (a person or thing).

Derivative

mistakable adj. mistakably adv.

Etymology

ME f. ON mistaka (as MIS-(1), TAKE)

THESAURUS

mistake

bad job, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, bungle, clanger, clerical error, clumsy performance, contort, corrigendum, distort, erratum, error, etourderie, failure, false step, fault, faute, faux pas, flub, fluff, foozle, fumble, gaffe, garble, gaucherie, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, goof, hash, howler, human error, indiscretion, make a miscue, make a mistake, mess, misapply, misapprehend, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscite, misconceive, misconception, misconstrue, miscount, miscue, misdeal, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misidentification, misidentify, misinterpret, misjudge, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, miss, misstatement, misstep, mistranslate, misunderstand, misunderstanding, misuse, muff, near-miss, off day, pervert, sad work, slip, slipup, squeeze, strain the sense, stumble, take for, torture, trip, twist the words, typo, typographical error, wrench

ROGET THESAURUS

mistake

Unskillfulness

VB be unskillful, not see an inch beyond one's nose, blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip, hobble, put one's foot in it, make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of, overshoot the mark, play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct, misdirect, misapply, missend, stultify oneself, make a fool of oneself, commit oneself, act foolishly, play the fool, put oneself out of court, lose control, lose control of oneself, lose one's head, lose one's cunning, begin at the wrong end, do things by halves, make two bites of a cherry, play at cross purposes, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, put the cart before the horse, lock the stable door when the horse is stolen, not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on which side one's bread is buttered, stand in one's own light, quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers, knock one's head against a stone wall, beat one's head against a stone wall, fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring the house about one's ears, have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent), have too many irons in the fire, mistake, take the shadow for the substance, bark up the wrong tree, be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill a crow, take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick, put the saddle on the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old bottles, cut blocks with a razor, hold a farthing candle to the sun, fight with a shadow, grasp at a shadow, catch at straws, lean on a broken reed, reckon without one's host, pursue a wild goose chase, go on a fool's goose chase, sleeveless errand, go further and fare worse, lose one's way, miss one's way, fail.

Error

N error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.

VB be erroneous, cause error, mislead, misguide, lead astray, lead into error, beguile, misinform, delude, give a false impression, give a false idea, falsify, misstate, deceive, lie, err, be in error, be mistaken, be deceived, mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself, fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error, be in the wrong, blunder, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate, play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes, trip, stumble, lose oneself, go astray, fail, be in the wrong box, take the wrong sow by the ear, put the saddle on the wrong horse, reckon without one's host, take the shadow for the substance, dream.

Misinterpretation

N misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication, catachresis, eisegesis, cross-reading, cross-purposes, mistake, misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, abuse of terms, parody, travesty, falsification, misinterpreted, untranslated, untranslatable.

VB misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply, mistake, misrepresent, pervert, explain wrongly, misstate, garble, distort, detort, travesty, play upon words, stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning, explain away, put a bad construction on, put a false construction on, give a false coloring, be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.