mistaking meaning

• Noun: mistaking  `mi'steyking
  1. Putting the wrong interpretation on
     "there was no mistaking her meaning"
     - misinterpretation, misunderstanding
  Verb: mistake (mistook,mistaken)  mi'steyk
  1. Identify incorrectly
     "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"
     - misidentify 
  2. To make a mistake or be incorrect
     - err, slip

  Derived forms: mistakings

  Type of: identify, interpretation

  Encyclopedia: Mistake

• Two copies of the same book have been bought by mistake.
• mistakes were corrected and gaps filled.
• He makes mistakes, and that very often.
• It will prove his historic mistake.
• We shouldn't be indulgent towards his mistakes.
• We tend to make mistakes when we do things in a hurry.
• I was conscious that i had made a mistake.
• There are so many mistakes that i cannot count them.
• We weren't going to make that mistake twice.
• The captain told him he was making a mistake.

• "mistaking" meaning in Chinese: n. 错误；误会；过失
• "mistaking" meaning in Russian: Mistaking