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单词 misidentify
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Definition of misidentify in English:

misidentify

verbmisidentified, misidentifying, misidentifies mɪsʌɪˈdɛntɪfʌɪˌmisīˈdentəˌfī
[with object]
  • Identify (something or someone) incorrectly.

    they were the sort of people who walk around misidentifying wild flowers with great authority
    Example sentencesExamples
    • False positives are cases where legitimate messages are misidentified as spam.
    • If the patient misidentifies the object and later corrects himself, the response is still considered abnormal.
    • Because of an editing error, we misidentified the author of an op-ed which appeared in Thursday's paper about Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and the growth of alternative rock music.
    • Unfortunately, in criticizing Washington's approach to the issue, he misidentifies the challenge and offers a problematic solution.
    • The lead pilot flew above and to the left of the low-flying U.S. helicopters and misidentified them as Russian Hind helicopters while trying to avoid flying into a mountain.
    • After the Hatfield crash, they issued a report where they managed to misidentify the vehicles involved.
    • As a result, stranded animals are frequently misidentified and those seen at sea are often identifiable only to the level of family or genus.
    • This draft contained several significant errors, including misidentifying the airline involved.
    • And if people consistently misidentify you as a man, woman, female impersonator or some other incorrect label, you sometimes want to remind them who you are.
    • I began the day by intentionally misidentifying seals as penguins.
    • In Russia, thinking of democracy as a sham may be understandable considering recent events, but it misidentifies the problem.
    • Plans for a national ID card scheme have been branded ‘farcical’ after suggestions it might misidentify people with brown eyes or men who go bald.
    • Response error refers to a misrecording of information on a detected individual, such as misidentifying one species for another.
    • The only mistake the BBC made, probably to further shield their source, was to misidentify him as an intelligence official, but that in no way led to his death.
    • Last week's Off the Record misidentified the writer of a letter to the New York Times sports page.
    • Only 17 percent of the respondents were able to accurately identify at least one type of primary care physician without also misidentifying non-primary care specialists or non-physicians as primary care physicians.
    • An earlier version of this column misidentified the state that is considering legislation as South Carolina, not North Carolina.
    • Some soldiers got to a location and misidentified it and it was reported according to their initial impression.
    • An article last Sunday about China's energy needs misidentified the main greenhouse gas emitted by burning coal.
    • He claimed he had nothing to do with the burglary and that police had misidentified him.

Derivatives

  • misidentification

  • noun mɪsʌɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
    • But two blatant misidentifications are completely unforgivable.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In a few cases, there are innocent misidentifications.
      • This is best illustrated, as he points out, by the misidentification of Hindu religious nationalism (which is on an aggressive course) as fundamentalism.
      • Many brown species of frogs are being killed as a result of misidentification, but the good news is that many toads did not survive the winter frosts.
      • Removing the challenge period will result in misidentifications and innocent beneficiaries being punished for the crimes of others.

Rhymes

identify
 
 

Definition of misidentify in US English:

misidentify

verbˌmisīˈdentəˌfī
[with object]
  • Identify (something or someone) incorrectly.

    they were the sort of people who walk around misidentifying wild flowers with great authority
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Plans for a national ID card scheme have been branded ‘farcical’ after suggestions it might misidentify people with brown eyes or men who go bald.
    • Unfortunately, in criticizing Washington's approach to the issue, he misidentifies the challenge and offers a problematic solution.
    • He claimed he had nothing to do with the burglary and that police had misidentified him.
    • This draft contained several significant errors, including misidentifying the airline involved.
    • The only mistake the BBC made, probably to further shield their source, was to misidentify him as an intelligence official, but that in no way led to his death.
    • If the patient misidentifies the object and later corrects himself, the response is still considered abnormal.
    • An earlier version of this column misidentified the state that is considering legislation as South Carolina, not North Carolina.
    • And if people consistently misidentify you as a man, woman, female impersonator or some other incorrect label, you sometimes want to remind them who you are.
    • As a result, stranded animals are frequently misidentified and those seen at sea are often identifiable only to the level of family or genus.
    • After the Hatfield crash, they issued a report where they managed to misidentify the vehicles involved.
    • The lead pilot flew above and to the left of the low-flying U.S. helicopters and misidentified them as Russian Hind helicopters while trying to avoid flying into a mountain.
    • Some soldiers got to a location and misidentified it and it was reported according to their initial impression.
    • An article last Sunday about China's energy needs misidentified the main greenhouse gas emitted by burning coal.
    • I began the day by intentionally misidentifying seals as penguins.
    • Only 17 percent of the respondents were able to accurately identify at least one type of primary care physician without also misidentifying non-primary care specialists or non-physicians as primary care physicians.
    • Last week's Off the Record misidentified the writer of a letter to the New York Times sports page.
    • Because of an editing error, we misidentified the author of an op-ed which appeared in Thursday's paper about Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and the growth of alternative rock music.
    • Response error refers to a misrecording of information on a detected individual, such as misidentifying one species for another.
    • False positives are cases where legitimate messages are misidentified as spam.
    • In Russia, thinking of democracy as a sham may be understandable considering recent events, but it misidentifies the problem.
 
 
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