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PRONUNCIATION OF MISAPPLY

misapply  [ˌmɪsəˈplaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISAPPLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misapply is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb misapply in English.

WHAT DOES MISAPPLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of misapply in the English dictionary

The definition of misapply in the dictionary is to apply wrongly or badly.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISAPPLY

PRESENT

Present
I misapply
you misapply
he/she/it misapplies
we misapply
you misapply
they misapply
Present continuous
I am misapplying
you are misapplying
he/she/it is misapplying
we are misapplying
you are misapplying
they are misapplying
Present perfect
I have misapplied
you have misapplied
he/she/it has misapplied
we have misapplied
you have misapplied
they have misapplied
Present perfect continuous
I have been misapplying
you have been misapplying
he/she/it has been misapplying
we have been misapplying
you have been misapplying
they have been misapplying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I misapplied
you misapplied
he/she/it misapplied
we misapplied
you misapplied
they misapplied
Past continuous
I was misapplying
you were misapplying
he/she/it was misapplying
we were misapplying
you were misapplying
they were misapplying
Past perfect
I had misapplied
you had misapplied
he/she/it had misapplied
we had misapplied
you had misapplied
they had misapplied
Past perfect continuous
I had been misapplying
you had been misapplying
he/she/it had been misapplying
we had been misapplying
you had been misapplying
they had been misapplying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will misapply
you will misapply
he/she/it will misapply
we will misapply
you will misapply
they will misapply
Future continuous
I will be misapplying
you will be misapplying
he/she/it will be misapplying
we will be misapplying
you will be misapplying
they will be misapplying
Future perfect
I will have misapplied
you will have misapplied
he/she/it will have misapplied
we will have misapplied
you will have misapplied
they will have misapplied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been misapplying
you will have been misapplying
he/she/it will have been misapplying
we will have been misapplying
you will have been misapplying
they will have been misapplying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would misapply
you would misapply
he/she/it would misapply
we would misapply
you would misapply
they would misapply
Conditional continuous
I would be misapplying
you would be misapplying
he/she/it would be misapplying
we would be misapplying
you would be misapplying
they would be misapplying
Conditional perfect
I would have misapply
you would have misapply
he/she/it would have misapply
we would have misapply
you would have misapply
they would have misapply
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been misapplying
you would have been misapplying
he/she/it would have been misapplying
we would have been misapplying
you would have been misapplying
they would have been misapplying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you misapply
we let´s misapply
you misapply
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to misapply
Past participle
misapplied
Present Participle
misapplying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISAPPLY


apply
əˈplaɪ
comply
kəmˈplaɪ
disapply
ˌdɪsəˈplaɪ
duply
djuːˈplaɪ
imply
ɪmˈplaɪ
multiply
ˈmʌltɪˌplaɪ
overmultiply
ˌəʊvəˈmʌltɪˌplaɪ
overply
ˌəʊvəˈplaɪ
oversupply
ˈəʊvəˌsəplaɪ
ply
plaɪ
preapply
ˌpriːəˈplaɪ
reapply
ˌriːəˈplaɪ
reply
rɪˈplaɪ
resupply
ˌriːsəˈplaɪ
sextuply
ˈsekstjʊˌplaɪ
supply
səˈplaɪ
undersupply
ˈʌndəsəˈplaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISAPPLY

misanthrope
misanthropic
misanthropical
misanthropically
misanthropist
misanthropy
misapplication
misapplied
misapplies
misappraisal
misappreciate
misappreciation
misappreciative
misapprehend
misapprehension
misapprehensive
misapprehensively
misapprehensiveness
misappropriate
misappropriation

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISAPPLY

aggregate supply
blood supply
excess supply
in short supply
labour supply
mains supply
money supply
popply
power supply
ripply
water supply

Synonyms and antonyms of misapply in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MISAPPLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «misapply» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of misapply

Translation of «misapply» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISAPPLY

Find out the translation of misapply to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of misapply from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «misapply» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

误用
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aplicar mal
570 millions of speakers

English

misapply
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनुचित कार्य में लगाना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أساء التطبيق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

злоупотреблять
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aplicar mal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভুলভাবে প্রয়োগ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal appliquer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Salah guna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

falsch anwenden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

悪用する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘못하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misapply
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dùng bậy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான முறையில் செயல்படுத்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकीचा अर्थ लावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yerinde kullanmamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

applicare male
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewłaściwie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зловживати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aplica greșit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εσφαλμένη εφαρμογή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkeerd gebruik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

felaktigt sätt har tillämpat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misapply
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of misapply

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISAPPLY»

The term «misapply» is normally little used and occupies the 128.227 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISAPPLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «misapply» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «misapply» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about misapply

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISAPPLY»

Discover the use of misapply in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to misapply and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Works of John Locke ...: With Alphabetical Tables ...
Your Lordship herein fays, It is very possible the Author of Christianity not Mysterious might mistake, or misapply my Notions. I find it indeed very possible, that my Notions may be mistaken and misapply'd j if by misapply'd, be mcanc drawing ...
John Locke, 1722
2
The works of John Locke, esq; in three volumes: The contents ...
Your Lordship herein says, It is very possible the Author of Christianity not Mysterious might mistake, or misapply my Notions. I find it indeed very possible, that my Notions may be mistaken and misapply d ; if by misapply'd, be meant drawing ...
John Locke, 1714
3
The Works of John Locke Esq: In Three Volumes. The Contents ...
I find it indeed very polfible, that my Notions may be mistaken and misapply 'd ; if by misapply'd, be meant drawing Inferences from thence, which belong not to them. But if that Possibility be reason enough to join me in the Plural Number, with ...
John Locke, 1714
4
Works
Your Lordihip herein fays, It is very possible the Author of Christianity not Mysterious might mistake, or misapply my Notions. I find it indeed very possible, that my Notions may be mistaken and misapply 'd ; if by misapply'd, be meant drawing ...
John Locke, 1722
5
Law: Metaphysics, Meaning, and Objectivity
Could I not still misapply it, say by intending to misapply it? But in that case, it would seem that a genuine contrast between application and misapplication for ' water*' can be facilitated, in which case 'water*' can gain a determinate extension , ...
Enrique Villanueva, 2007
6
Oxford Studies in Epistemology
This failure to recognize the possibility of scenarios of a certain sort lead him to misapply his own concept of justified certainty. So this is a case in which Ordinary should, upon realizing this mistake, retain belief in the general principle about ...
Tamar Szabó Gendler, John Hawthorne, 2013
7
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New York
... only in that character; but it would not do, to hold, broadly and generally, that no man could advance money upon a bond, or other chose in action of the testator, without implying a fraudulent collusion with the executor to misapply the assets.
William Johnson, 1824
8
A Second Letter to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock,: Being a Reply ...
The Magistrate may POSSIBLY misapply ! Look, Sir, into the World and see if it be but P O S S I B L E for the Magistrate to misapply his Rewards and Punishments. One would think that Mr. Dean of Chichefler had never heard of Dragooning, ...
Arthur Ashley Sykes, Benjamin Hoadly, 1717
9
Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change
DOES. OD. MISAPPLY. NATURAL. SCIENCE. MODELS. TO. HUMAN. SYSTEMS ? One set of criteria for deciding how to intervene in the organization at the outset derives from the assumption that consultants are ...
William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, Roland L. Sullivan, 2009
10
The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes... Volume the First ...
you answered, “ that it is very pos“ sible the author of Christianity not mysterious might “ mistake or misapply my notions, but there is too “ much reason to believe he thought them the same; “ and we have no reason to be sorry that he hath ...
‎1824

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISAPPLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term misapply is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Buhari's frugality and owambe politicians
... misappropriate and misapply the bailout funds in reckless conviviality, meaningless revelry, social rascality and debaucherous Owambeism. «Gbooza, Jul 15»
2
Forgiveness has everlasting power
The reason behind all this conflict is because people just don't understand what forgiveness is all about and so they misuse, misapply, ... «St. George Daily Spectrum, Jul 15»
3
Judge Grants Subpoena of Gibson Dunn's Bridgegate Notes
... each of conspiracy to misapply Port Authority property and conspiracy against civil rights. He has been cooperating with federal investigators. «New Jersey Law Journal, Jul 15»
4
Mawuli Ocloo: The ethical salesperson; New breed of salespeople …
... promotional items meant for customers for their personal use; they can't account for their expense account; they misapply company resources ... «Graphic Online, Jul 15»
5
Armchair Analyst: The third line, a monster in Kansas City and more …
Maybe your left back's per-90 numbers – his "work rate," if you want to misapply a term – for the same are kind of eye-popping. And maybe ... «MLSsoccer.com, Jul 15»
6
Workers to governors: don't blow N713b bailout cash
Kogi State NLC Chairman Comrade Onuh Edoka praised the initiative and expressed the hope that the state governments would not misapply ... «The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
7
Julie Siegenthaler: It's time for Alta Sierra Property Owners …
You misapply the First Amendment by suggesting press must be allowed to a membership meeting. A man with a camera does not make him ... «The Union of Grass Valley, Jul 15»
8
Criminal – Consecutive sentences
... to run consecutively to a 12-year sentence on the state charges, the U.S. District Court judge did not misapply the sentencing guidelines. «Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Jul 15»
9
Balance of Power: Rand Paul on being 'libertarian-ish'
Rittiman: "Do you embrace the term 'libertarian' at all or do you think people misapply that to you?" Paul: "You know, sometimes we say ... «9NEWS.com, Jul 15»
10
Investment advice that's usually wrong: 'This time it's different'
However, you need to remember that these four words are also easy to misapply. The underlying cycle of optimism and pessimism never ... «The Battlefords News-Optimist, Jul 15»

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