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misname

/mis-neym/US // mɪsˈneɪm //

错名,错别字,错误名称,错号

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mis·named, mis·nam·ing.

    • : to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.

Examples

  • He saw behind it nothing save an implacable selfishness that chose to misname itself affection.

  • Thus, not only our bread and our boots are made by machinery, but many of the very things we misname "art-products."

  • This material sinful personality, which we misname man, is what St. Paul terms "the old man and his deeds," to be "put off."

  • A catch came into Turner's voice and he said somewhat huskily, "When they christened ye Blossom they didn't misname ye none."

  • “To misname me would do you no good and me no harm,” replied the Jew gravely.