Associations to the word «Mistake»

Wiktionary

MISTAKE, noun. An error; a blunder.
MISTAKE, noun. (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
MISTAKE, verb. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
MISTAKE, verb. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
MISTAKE, verb. (obsolete) (rare) To take or choose wrongly.

Dictionary definition

MISTAKE, noun. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults".
MISTAKE, noun. An understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister".
MISTAKE, noun. Part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors".
MISTAKE, verb. Identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister".
MISTAKE, verb. To make a mistake or be incorrect.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates