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Meaning of "misidentify" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISIDENTIFY

misidentify  [ˌmɪsaɪˈdɛntɪfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISIDENTIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misidentify 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 misidentify in English.

WHAT DOES MISIDENTIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of misidentify in the English dictionary

The definition of misidentify in the dictionary is to identify incorrectly.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISIDENTIFY

PRESENT

Present
I misidentify
you misidentify
he/she/it misidentifies
we misidentify
you misidentify
they misidentify
Present continuous
I am misidentifying
you are misidentifying
he/she/it is misidentifying
we are misidentifying
you are misidentifying
they are misidentifying
Present perfect
I have misidentified
you have misidentified
he/she/it has misidentified
we have misidentified
you have misidentified
they have misidentified
Present perfect continuous
I have been misidentifying
you have been misidentifying
he/she/it has been misidentifying
we have been misidentifying
you have been misidentifying
they have been misidentifying
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 misidentified
you misidentified
he/she/it misidentified
we misidentified
you misidentified
they misidentified
Past continuous
I was misidentifying
you were misidentifying
he/she/it was misidentifying
we were misidentifying
you were misidentifying
they were misidentifying
Past perfect
I had misidentified
you had misidentified
he/she/it had misidentified
we had misidentified
you had misidentified
they had misidentified
Past perfect continuous
I had been misidentifying
you had been misidentifying
he/she/it had been misidentifying
we had been misidentifying
you had been misidentifying
they had been misidentifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you misidentify
we let´s misidentify
you misidentify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to misidentify
Past participle
misidentified
Present Participle
misidentifying
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 MISIDENTIFY


arefy
ˈærɪfaɪ
decertify
diːˈsɜːtɪfaɪ
fluidify
fluːˈɪdɪfaɪ
gentrify
ˈdʒɛntrɪfaɪ
glassify
ˈɡlɑːsɪfaɪ
left-justify
ˌleftˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ
lithify
ˈlɪθɪfaɪ
magnifying
ˈmæɡnɪfaɪ
munify
ˈmjuːnɪfaɪ
premodify
priːˈmɒdɪfaɪ
quizzify
ˈkwɪzɪfaɪ
reclassify
ˌriːˈklæsɪfaɪ
right-justify
ˌraɪtˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ
scyphi
ˈsaɪfaɪ
unqualify
ʌnˈkwɒlɪfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISIDENTIFY

misimpression
misimprove
misimprovement
misinfer
misinform
misinformant
misinformation
misinformer
misinstruct
misinstruction
misintelligence
misintend
misinterpret
misinterpretation
misinterpreter

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISIDENTIFY

beautify
certify
demystify
flintify
fortify
gratify
justify
mattify
mortify
notify
objectify
overidentify
prettify
quantify
ratify
rectify
reidentify
sanctify
stratify
testify

Synonyms and antonyms of misidentify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «misidentify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISIDENTIFY

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

Translator English - Chinese

误判
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

misidentify
570 millions of speakers

English

misidentify
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

misidentify
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يخطىء التعرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ошибочно идентифицировать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

misidentify
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

misidentify
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

croire à tort
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Misidentify
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

misidentify
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

misidentify
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

misidentify
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misidentify
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngộ nhận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

misidentify
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकीची ओळख पटवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

misidentify
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

misidentify
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

misidentify
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

помилково ідентифікувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

misidentify
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

misidentify
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

misidentify
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

misidentify
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misidentify
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of misidentify

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISIDENTIFY»

The term «misidentify» is normally little used and occupies the 128.764 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISIDENTIFY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «misidentify» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «misidentify» 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 misidentify

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISIDENTIFY»

Discover the use of misidentify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to misidentify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Self-Knowledge
As long as the superimposition of the body on the Self is present, that is, as long as you misidentify with the body, a bodily state, a mortal state, a seemingly limited state, and a bound state will appear to be yours. It is not the natural state.
Nome, 2003
2
The Rehabilitation of Partner-Violent Men
In addition,this group, in contrast to the non-violent and family-only groups, was more likely to misidentify anger as disgust. In contrast to all other groups, the generally violent subtype were more likely to misidentify anger as happiness.
Erica Bowen, 2011
3
The Phonological Mind
For example, people should misidentify the monosyllable lbif as the disyllable labif they should be less likely to misidentify bdif, and least likely to misidentify bnif. And since lbif is recoded as labif, people might also incorrectly judge such ...
Iris Berent, 2013
4
The Quest for the Nazi Personality: A Psychological ...
®misidentify ̄. the stimuli provokes a series of complex psychological operations resulting in an activity that ultimately culminatesin the verbalization ofresponses. This situation posed by the need to misidentify the stimulus card,
Eric A. Zillmer, Molly Harrower, Barry A. Ritzler, 2013
5
The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible REALLY Says ...
Just as the error of misdating John's gospel has led scholars on the left to misidentify Judas as Christ's ultimate benefactor rather than his unseemly betrayer, so the error of misdatingJohn's revelation has led scholars on the right —and ...
Hank Hanegraaff, 2010
6
Children's Thinking: What Develops?
In the extended problem, a similar proportion should misidentify the super¬ ordinate class, A, with the subordinate classes, A2, A3, and A 4 , when they give an A answer. This was nearly the case. Here, given an A answer, the probability of ...
Robert Siegler, 2013
7
Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings
It is always logically possible, of course, that some other utterance should possess this list of characteristics — we can misidentify an utterance just as we can misidentify a stone, a tree, or a person. But in fact we need not and do not. Moreover ...
Michael J. Loux, 2001
8
The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and ...
In this way, we misidentify this joy in fragmented missing links of reality and confuse concomitancy with ultimacy and teleology. In such circumstance, there is the danger of confronting missing links of reality in their pure relativity and losing  ...
Innocent Asouzu, 2005
9
Philosophy and Scientific Realism
It is always logically possible, of course, that some 0111” utterance should possess this list of characteristics—we can misidentify an utterance just as we can misidentify a stone, a tree, or a person. But in fact we need not and do not. Moreover ...
J J C Smart, 2014
10
The Taboo of Subjectivity : Towards a New Science of ...
Descartes's absolutist position collapses in the light of experience, for it is evident that we can misidentify the nature of our own mental events, without reference to any external phenomena. For example, John may believe that he feels only the ...
Department of Religious Studies University of California B. Alan Wallace Visiting Lecturer, Santa Barbara, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISIDENTIFY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term misidentify is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Claim against Tulare police alleges false arrest, imprisonment
Gehlawat said he was unsure who the officers involved were and didn't want to misidentify them. Rodelo's arrest may be a situation of mistaken ... «Visalia Times-Delta, Jul 15»
2
Can stress and fatigue affect officer bias and decision-making?
... using gender instead of race: college students were significantly more likely to misidentify a non-weapon as a weapon when the object was paired with a male ... «Police News, Jul 15»
3
China's Commodities Crash Will Not Make Australia The Next Greece
This is to misidentify Greece's problem. Yes, the country's terms of trade have changed, as is it likely that those of Australia will. But Greece's ... «Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide, Jul 15»
4
Kit Harrington Reportedly Arrives In Belfast For Game Of Thrones …
... we'd have our doubts about accuracy, but it seems unlikely that several different sources would misidentify the same actor at the same time. «Comicbook.com, Jul 15»
5
Modern Gothic thriller 'The Ice Twins' chills
Or did the shocked parents misidentify the victim of the fall? Tremayne allows clues about who that victim really is to shift from Lydia to Kirstie ... «Houston Chronicle, Jul 15»
6
This Smart Camera Detects And Alerts You When There Is A Gun In …
... small chance that it could misidentify an object for the weapon. Then again, there is an even worse scenario — when a firearm is concealed. «Tech Times, Jul 15»
7
Georgia Right to Life Praises Call for Planned Parenthood …
If you misidentify the problem, you will misidentify the solution." Georgia Right to Life promotes respect and effective legal protection for all ... «Christian News Wire, Jul 15»
8
Retail Choice Has Doubled in the US—Does It Matter for Electric …
Compete Coalition noted that it is time to tackle other issues, but seemed to misidentify what the most pressing issues are. For example, the ... «Greentech Media, Jul 15»
9
Siri treats Caitlyn Jenner with the respect she deserves
You can try to misidentify Caitlyn Jenner by her former identity, but Siri isn't going to let you get away with it. While the iPhone voice search app ... «Zap2it.com, Jul 15»
10
Middlebourne Council Votes To Amend Dog Ordinance
She said one thing she has found is it is very easy for someone to misidentify a dog, and just because it is a big dog a lot of times people think it ... «Tyler Star News, Jul 15»

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