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PRONUNCIATION OF MISMEASURE

mismeasure  [ˌmɪsˈmeʒə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISMEASURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mismeasure 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 mismeasure in English.

WHAT DOES MISMEASURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mismeasure in the English dictionary

The definition of mismeasure in the dictionary is to measure inaccurately or incorrectly.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISMEASURE

PRESENT

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

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you mismeasure
we let´s mismeasure
you mismeasure
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to mismeasure
Past participle
mismeasured
Present Participle
mismeasuring
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 MISMEASURE


entreasure
ɪnˈtreʒə
remeasure
riːˈmeʒə
untreasure
ʌnˈtreʒə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISMEASURE

mismake
mismanage
mismanagement
mismanager
mismanners
mismark
mismarriage
mismarry
mismatch
mismatched
mismatchment
mismate
mismeasurement
mismetre
mismove
Misnagdim
Misnaged
misnamed
misnomer
misnumber

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISMEASURE

common measure
countermeasure
displeasure
dry measure
economy measure
embrasure
erasure
for good measure
half measure
liquid measure
made to measure
made-to-measure
measure
pleasure
rasure
safety measure
security measure
square measure
tape measure
to be sure
treasure

Synonyms and antonyms of mismeasure in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mismeasure» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISMEASURE

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

Translator English - Chinese

mismeasure
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falsa medida
570 millions of speakers

English

mismeasure
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mismeasure
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mismeasure
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

mismeasure
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Mismeasure
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mismeasure
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Mismeasure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mismeasure
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

falsch vermessene
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mismeasure
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mismeasure
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mismeasure
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mismeasure
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mismeasure
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकीची माहिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mismeasure
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Mismeasure
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mismeasure
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

mismeasure
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mismeasure
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mismeasure
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mismeasure
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mismeasure
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mismeasure
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mismeasure

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISMEASURE»

The term «mismeasure» is normally little used and occupies the 137.352 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of mismeasure
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISMEASURE» OVER TIME

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISMEASURE»

Discover the use of mismeasure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mismeasure and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve.
Stephen Jay Gould, 2006
2
The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of ...
In this book, Edward Stein, a philosopher and legal theorist, investigates scientific research on sexual orientation and shows that it is deeply flawed.
Edward Stein, 2001
3
The Mismeasure of Crime
This book addresses the measurement of crime both historically and cross-nationally.
Clayton J. Mosher, Terance D. Miethe, Timothy C. Hart, 2010
4
Mismeasure of Women: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the ...
Tavris disproves the theories of the "otherness" of women perpetuated by convention and reinforced by flawed scientific studies, as she introduces readers to a radical new way of thinking about men and women.
Carol Tavris, 1993
5
Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man
This is especially true of efforts to judge people as better or worse than, or equal to, one another.
Paula Blank, 2006
6
The Mismeasure of Education
The title of this book, The Mismeasure of Education, is deliberately chosen as a very deep bow to the great paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould (1996), whose The Mismeasure ofMan offers a critical history of the all-too-human fixation by ...
Jim Horn, Denise Wilburn, 2013
7
The poverty of "the poverty rate": measure and mismeasure of ...
Eberstadt contends that the defects of the current poverty rate are not only severe but irremediable.
Nick Eberstadt, 2008
8
Feminism and Science
JUDITH GENOVA Recent attempts by the neurological and psychological communities to articulate thought differences between women and men continue to mismeasure thought, especially women's thought. To challenge the claims of ...
Nancy Tuana, 1989
9
Eugenics: Race and Intelligence, The Bell Curve, The ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books Llc, Source: Wikipedia, Books Group, 2010
10
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man (1981), by Stephen Jay Gould, is a history and critique of the statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups - ...
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISMEASURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mismeasure is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Don't Believe The Chinese Economic Statistics: Except The Ones …
If you mismeasure the effects of what you're doing it's all too easy to get locked into feedback loops that aren't going to work. For example, the ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
The Racial Alarm Bells That Went Off in My Head While Listening to …
... that controversial book in 1994 (which was disproved 12 years before it even hit the press by Stephen Jay Gould's masterful The Mismeasure ... «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
3
Neither Forgive Dylann Roof Nor Ourselves: Quandaries Of …
In The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould demonstrates how absurd a-priori assumptions (hypotheses) can eventuate in ludicrous ... «CounterCurrents.org, Jun 15»
4
The Certainty of Uncertainty in Medicine
Now there is a new book, called Willful Ignorance; The Mismeasure of Uncertainty, by prominent statistician Herb Weisberg of the firm ... «Medscape, May 15»
5
Poverty shrinks brains from birth
In "The Mismeasure of Man", Stephen Jay Gould tries to put an end on ... I agree with this comment, having been primed by the "Mismeasure of ... «Nature.com, Mar 15»
6
Report: The Mismeasure of Teaching Time
Being a teacher can be hard work, but a new report finds that teachers don't work quite as many hours as we are led to believe. The report, conducted by ... «Education World, Feb 15»
7
Elites fight back against mismeasure of poverty
Our understanding of poverty is starting to undergo a transformation, thanks to new research and the backing of wealthy and powerful interests. «Al Jazeera America, Jan 15»
8
The Mismeasure of Management
"For a president who came to office hoping to restore public faith in government as a force for good in society, the mess at the Department of ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 14»
9
The Mismeasure of Man: Why Popular Ideas about Human-Chimp …
And that brings me to another false assumption underlying the mismeasure of man -- that genes make us who we are. Many things beyond our ... «Discovery Institute, Mar 14»
10
The mismeasure of money
In the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, a rent of $2,900 a month is considered a deal. Mark Lennihan/AP. Do I not earn enough money to ... «Al Jazeera America, Feb 14»

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