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MISTAKING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Putting the wrong interpretation on

Example:

there was no mistaking her meaning

Synonyms:

misinterpretation; mistaking; misunderstanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mistaking" is a kind of...):

interpretation (an explanation that results from interpreting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mistaking"):

imbroglio (a very embarrassing misunderstanding)

misconstrual; misconstruction (a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately))

misreading (misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading)

Derivation:

mistake (identify incorrectly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb mistake

Credits

 Context examples: 

The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)