misname in the PONS Dictionary

misname Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to misname sth
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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Rainforests are also responsible for 28% of the world's oxygen turnover, sometimes misnamed oxygen production, processing it through photosynthesis from carbon dioxide and consuming it through respiration.
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Systems where there is a penalty after detection of target drugs are sometimes misnamed zero tolerance for the foregoing reasons.
en.wikipedia.org
It's misnamed, because we don't really "save" or add any daylight.
www.heraldsun.com
It also includes "ghost streets" -- ones that are deliberately misnamed so the publishers can tell whether anyone is stealing their copyright.
www.independent.co.uk
This is misnamed a feast, being full of annoyance; since going out-of-doors is burdensome, and staying within doors is not undisturbed.
en.wikipedia.org
I think in some early communications we've misnamed that.
www.stuff.co.nz
While this cognitive mistake is often attributed to aging, researchers say that college undergraduates are guilty of misnaming as well.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Many of the salespersons at groceries (shops where fruits and vegetables are sold) rather misname pear as sweet apple because it is sweeter than apple.
www.ghanaweb.com
It would take the military's incursion into power to destroy all of that under a unitary command structure that was misnamed a federation.
www.vanguardngr.com
Our living, collective power, generated through nurturance of our traditions has been misnamed and misdirected.
indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com

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