Translations for „misname“ in the English » German Dictionary

mis·name [mɪsˈneɪm] VB trans

1. misname (call wrongly):

to misname sth

etw falsch benennen

to misname sth

etw dat einen falschen Namen [o. eine falsche Bezeichnung] geben

to misname a flower/an instrument

eine Blume/ein Instrument falsch benennen

to misname a measure/policy

einer Maßnahme/Politik eine falsche Bezeichnung geben

2. misname (call inappropriately):

to misname sb/sth sb/sth

jdn/etw unzutreffend [o. zu Unrecht] als jdn/etw bezeichnen

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to misname a measure/policy

einer Maßnahme/Politik eine falsche Bezeichnung geben

to misname a flower/an instrument

eine Blume/ein Instrument falsch benennen

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Both genera have at times been confused with xanthorrhoeas and misnamed as grasstrees.

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Systems where there is a penalty after detection of target drugs are sometimes misnamed zero tolerance for the foregoing reasons.

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This is misnamed a feast, being full of annoyance; since going out-of-doors is burdensome, and staying within doors is not undisturbed.

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On the insurance records, the woman's death was noted as the result of "cardiovascular" complications, misnaming the actual cause of death.

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It would take the military's incursion into power to destroy all of that under a unitary command structure that was misnamed a federation.

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Our living, collective power, generated through nurturance of our traditions has been misnamed and misdirected.

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It has to tie itself into that or else it's misnamed.

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This species is widely distributed throughout tropical regions but it is often misnamed.

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I think in some early communications we've misnamed that.

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It is misnamed, as it lives on level land.

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