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Adjective
/məˈstākən/,
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Wrong in one's opinion or judgment,
  1. Wrong in one's opinion or judgment
    • - she wondered whether she'd been mistaken about his intentions
  2. (esp. of a belief) Based on or resulting from a misunderstanding or faulty judgment
    • - don't buy a hard bed in the mistaken belief that it is good for you
    • - an unfortunate case of mistaken identity
  1. misguided: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity"
  2. false: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
  3. (mistakenly) in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it"
  4. (mistake) identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"
  5. (mistake) 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"
  6. (mistake) 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"
  7. (A Mistake) When the Pawn... is the second album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released by Epic Records in the United States on November 9, 1999. The full album title contains over 400 characters of text.
  8. (Mistake (contract law)) In contract law a mistake is an erroneous belief, at contracting, that certain facts are true. It may be used as grounds to invalidate the agreement. ...
  9. (Mistake (criminal law)) A mistake of fact may sometimes offer exculpation (as in excuse) by allowing a criminal defendant some relief from liability for having broken the law. This is unlike a mistake of law, which is not usually a defense.
  10. (Mistake (Mike Oldfield song)) "Mistake" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music).
  11. (Mistake (Moby song)) "Mistake" is the third single from electronica singer Moby's ninth studio album, Wait for Me. It was released worldwide on September 14, 2009. The official music video is animated by Robert Powers, however, many others have been created.
  12. (Mistake (song)) "Mistake" is a pop rock song by Stephanie McIntosh. It was released as the first single from her debut album Tightrope on July 29, 2006.
  13. (The Mistake (band)) The Mistake was a hardcore band from Orange County, California, USA. Formed in 2000 by Javier Van Huss (Eighteen Visions/ Enewetak) and Erick Pressman, they were originally called Hara Kiri, but changed their name to The Mistake after only a few shows. ...
  14. (The Mistake (film)) The Mistake is a 1913 drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.
  15. erroneous; To have an incorrect belief
  16. (mistake) An error; a blunder; A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place; To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else; To make an error, to do something in wrong way
  17. (MISTAKE) An innocent error. If a mistake is made by all parties to a contract about a material fact, the contract may be voidable.
  18. (Mistake) In contract law, an unintentional act or failure to act arising from a misunderstanding of the true state of affairs, from ignorance, or from an error not intentionally made in bad faith; an unintentional misunderstanding as to the nature of a term agreed to in a contract. ...
  19. (MISTAKE) shaded silk used for ribbons.
  20. (Mistake) an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge.
  21. (Mistake) in a legal sense there are two types of mistake. The first is a mistake of law in which the facts are known but are combined with a wrong conclusion about the legal effect of those facts. The second is a mistake of fact which is an intentional failure to find out the truth of those facts.
  22. (mistake) A belief that is not in accord with the facts.
  23. (mistake) A human action that produces an incorrect result. Note: The fault tolerance discipline distinguishes between the human action (a mistake), its manifestation (a hardware or software fault), the result of the fault (a failure), and the amount by which the result is incorrect (the error).
  24. (mistake) A legal term which describes the situation where a person, under some erroneous conviction of law or fact, does, or omits to do, some act which but for the erroneous conviction, he would not have done or omitted doing.
  25. (mistake) or blunder - a procedural error that should be avoided by careful attention [Taylor, 3]. These are illegitimate errors and can generally be corrected by carefully repeating the operations [Bevington, 2].