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/mɪˈsteɪk/ · mis·take
noun
- An error or blunder. She realized her mistake as soon as the calculator displayed a wrong total.
- In baseball, a pitch that was intended to be placed in a difficult location but ends up in an easy-to-hit spot. The pitcher’s mistake gave the batter a perfect fastball to drive.
verb
- To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. Don’t mistake my silence for disinterest.
- To misunderstand someone. He mistook her sarcasm for genuine praise.
- To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong. I mistook the deadline and submitted the report a day late.
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Did you know? The word ‘mistake’ entered English via Old Norse and originally meant ‘a taking in error’; its baseball sense is a modern extension first recorded in the late 20th century.