单词 | misassign |
释义 | misassignv. transitive. To assign erroneously; to attribute to the wrong person or thing. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > assign to a cause [verb (transitive)] > attribute something to someone > erroneously misassign1603 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 221 These Men doe from each other stray Touching the soules birth, which they mis-assigne. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall ii. 38 We have not mis-assign'd the cause of this Phænomenon. 1879 A. B. Grosart in T. Howell Poems p. x (note) Wood misassigns Abp. Parker's verse-Psalter to him. 1956 Rev. Econ. & Statistics 38 261/2 Given a class frequency of 1,000,000 we can expect that approximately 500 units may be misassigned by the rounding process. 1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 437 Raj..overlooks the code-like sound or else mis-assigns it to the tooth mechanism. 1994 Science 265 1111/1 To judge whether a putative coding region corresponds to a transcriptionally active gene..or has been misassigned as a functional segment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1603 |
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