What's the difference between confused and mistook?

Confused


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Confuse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
  • (2) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
  • (3) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
  • (4) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (5) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
  • (6) The intracellular localization of tachyzoites facilitated diagnosis by obviating potential confusion of extracellular tachyzoites with cellular debris or platelets.
  • (7) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (8) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
  • (9) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
  • (10) Many characteristics of the Chinese history and society are responsible for this controversy and confusion.
  • (11) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
  • (12) Bilateral temporal epilepsies involving the limbic system on the one hand, bilateral frontal epilepsies on the other one, and P.M. status which may be paralleled, make these patients more susceptible to acute mental confusions, to acute thymic disorders, to delirious attacks.
  • (13) At present the use of the four terms to describe the common types of diabetes leads to confusion, which could readily be resolved by arriving at agreed definitions for each of these terms.
  • (14) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
  • (15) The features of benzodiazepine withdrawal in the elderly may differ from those seen in young patients; withdrawal symptoms include confusion and disorientation which often does not precipitate milder reactions such as anxiety, insomnia and perceptual changes.
  • (16) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
  • (17) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
  • (18) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
  • (19) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
  • (20) I think it would have been appropriate and right and respectful of people’s feelings to have done so.” There was also confusion over Labour policy sparked by conflicting comments made by Corbyn and his new shadow work and pensions secretary, Owen Smith.

Mistook


Definition:

  • (imp. & obs. p. p.) of Mistake
  • () imp. & obs. p. p. of Mistake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (2) 66, 292 (1975)], who recently demonstrated the entrapment of Latex spheres in erythrocytes prepared by osmotic haemolysis mistook electron-dense bodies probably consisting of denaturated protein for Latex particles.
  • (3) The chase began when police officers mistook a car backfiring for shots aimed at a county Justice Center.
  • (4) He denies the charge , insisting that he mistook her for a burglar.
  • (5) Police were ordered to apologise in person last year to an elderly blind man who was shot with a Taser electronic weapon after they mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
  • (6) In an article for the New York Times in 2009, Krugman wrote : "As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth."
  • (7) He told the court that he mistook her for a burglar, while prosecutors argued that he shot her after an argument.
  • (8) At one time I mistook this nakedness for freedom, but I don't any more.
  • (9) We mistook killing the messenger for killing the message.
  • (10) If Lorena mistook the symbol for the reality and reduced the problems that she had with her husband to the existence of his penis, she was in a demented way reinforcing the dominant view of male sexuality that the penis has a life of its own, that men just can't help but being lead around by their dicks.
  • (11) That fate befell Manchester City youth player James Tandy in 2004 when a refreshed Joey Barton mistook his eyelids for a cinderbox and eased a cigar into both of them.
  • (12) A botched attack in December – in which the military, acting on intelligence from unarmed drones, killed 34 smugglers it mistook for rebels – is likely to further complicate sales.
  • (13) Pistorius admits shooting Steenkamp through a toilet door on Valentine's day last year but insists he mistook her for an intruder.
  • (14) A police officer has been asked to apologise to a blind man whom he shot with a Taser when he mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
  • (15) Judge Paul Worsley QC said if the bombers had been caught sooner, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian man, may not have been shot dead on July 22 after armed police mistook him for one of the terrorists.
  • (16) Pistorius has said he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot four times through a locked bathroom door, killing her almost instantly.
  • (17) But there will be anger too; she has always maintained that Michael, 22, a lance corporal in the Royal Military police (RMP), died unnecessarily in Sangin in 2009 when a British sniper mistook him for an insurgent , and that the Ministry of Defence was not straight with her either before or during the inquest.
  • (18) In the next 11 years we will make as much plastic as has been made since industrial plastic production began in the 1950s.” Birds mistook plastic bits for fish eggs so “they think they’re getting a proper meal but they’re really getting a plastic meal”, Hardesty said.
  • (19) Experts believe that the victims mistook the death caps for the bearded Amanita, which is not found in Germany but grows in the Mediterranean area.
  • (20) Two years later he was outraged when the title track of Born in the USA, written in the voice of an embittered Vietnam veteran, was appropriated by the Republican party, who mistook its deceptively exultant chorus and tried to use it as a flag-waving campaign anthem for Ronald Reagan.

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