mistake
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mistake/mɪˈsteɪk/
▶noun something which is not correct; an inaccuracy.
■ an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong.
▶verb (past mistook; past part. mistaken) be wrong about.■ (mistake someone/thing for) wrongly identify someone or something as.
– derivatives
mistakable (also mistakeable) adjective,
mistakably (also mistakeably) adverb.
mistakable (also mistakeable) adjective,
mistakably (also mistakeably) adverb.
– origin ME (as v.): from ON mistaka ‘take in error’, prob. influenced in sense by OFr. mesprendre.
'mistake' also found in these Oxford entries:
account
- bish
- bloomer
- bloop
- blunder
- boner
- boob
- boo-boo
- bungle
- carry
- cat
- clanger
- clerical error
- commit
- cover-up
- criterion
- drop
- error
- false step
- fault
- fluff
- foot
- forgive
- foul
- foul-up
- goof
- have
- honest
- howler
- misstep
- mistook
- muff
- nod
- of
- oops
- pence
- phenomenon
- pounce
- punish
- slip
- slip-up
- solecism
- stick
- stroke
- stumble
- trip
- white
- wrong
