What's the difference between false and mischaracterize?
False
Definition:
(superl.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
(superl.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
(superl.) Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
(superl.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
(superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
(superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(superl.) Not in tune.
(adv.) Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
(a.) To report falsely; to falsify.
(a.) To betray; to falsify.
(a.) To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
(a.) To feign; to pretend to make.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
(2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(3) Administration of furosemide might result, on occasion, in a false positive test for pheochromocytoma.
(4) Antigen of HK-9 strain created in this area a characteristic pattern with all sera containing the specific anti-E. histolytica antibodies and, therefore, EITB can be used for excluding false positive results in ELISA.
(5) However, in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) cases, a high false positive rate of 41% was observed in Americans.
(6) Results of sleep sampling under electroencephalographic control of the assessment of GH secretion are comparable to conventional pharmacological studies in terms of efficiency, sensitivity, and percentage false-negatives.
(7) Newer modalities, such as TRUS and PSA, can identify patients with nonpalpable prostate cancer, but the use of these tests will also result in many false-positives.
(8) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
(9) In response, Trump used Twitter to falsely claim that the woman in question, Alicia Machado, had made a sex tape.
(10) The incidence of false positive and false negative cells seen after hybridization of tritiated Y-probes to control lymphocyte cultures suggests that it should normally be possible to distinguish morphologically normal male and female pre-embryos with samples of three to six interphase nuclei.
(11) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
(12) Pseudohyponatremia is a falsely low serum sodium measurement.
(13) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
(14) At cut-off levels chosen to yield the same false positive rate the quantitative DBA method detected 93% of smokers, close to that of 98% detected with the cotinine RIA.
(15) Several months later, as the patient experienced relapses with cerebellar and spinal cord involvement, falsely positive tests for syphilis were found and an antibiotic treatment was given.
(16) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
(17) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(18) In three cases, no arterial lesion was detected (3 false-positive findings).
(19) DNA-samples from HSV-infected and uninfected Vero cells have been examined concurrently to provide standard "HSV-positive" and "HSV-negative" samples, the latter guarding also against false positives caused by cross-contamination.
(20) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
Mischaracterize
Definition:
(v. t.) To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.
Example Sentences:
(1) We really didn’t want to vote for it, but we made a mistake and now we’re trying to do what’s right and correct it.” But their letter also said while the intent of their vote “was to create a shield for all citizens’ religious liberties, the bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance”.
(2) Among 129 MRSA and 112 MSSA strains, significant numbers of MRSA found to be false-susceptible to PRPs, especially when incubated at 37 degrees C. Using agar plates supplemented with 5% NaCl, oxacillin disk correctly categorized all the MRSA and MSSA strains, but two MSSA strains were mischaracterized with methicillin disk.
(3) This article (a) reexamines the evidence relevant to Ingram's proposal that self-awareness is a nonspecific factor involved in virtually all forms of psychopathology and argues that this conclusion is not warranted by the existing evidence; (b) takes issue with his premise that the fact that self-awareness is associated with a variety of psychological dysfunctions poses a conceptual dilemma; (c) corrects several important inaccuracies and mischaracterizations in his presentation of Carver and Scheier's (1981) cybernetic control theory and Pyszczynski and Greenberg's (1987) self-regulatory perseveration theory; and (d) critiques the "self-absorption" model that he proposed as an alternative to extant theories and concludes that this conceptualization does not add to the understanding of either self-awareness processes or psychopathology.
(4) A previous version mischaracterized the College of William and Mary as ‘a bastion of southern conservatism’.
(5) The purposes and goals and even the facts had been so mischaracterized as to turn it into a divisive situation, not a unifying situation.” Many had questions and concerns about the structure that’s an important piece of the school’s identity.
(6) Asked if he regretted his vote to end the NSA’s bulk collection, Cruz said the reform bill had been mischaracterized.
(7) Senator Warren’s mischaracterization of my statements and the agency’s accomplishments is unfortunate, but it will not detract from the work we have done, and will continue to do, on behalf of investors,” White said in a statement.
(8) Indiana governor Pence says religious objection law won't be changed Read more Bosma blamed the reaction on a “mischaracterization” of the law by both opponents and some supporters.
(9) Clearly, clearly, there’s been misunderstanding and confusion and mischaracterization of this law and I come before you today to say how we’re going to address that,” the governor said, as prominent businesses and the Indianapolis Star call for reform to the law.
(10) Pence and other Republican leaders initially blamed the reaction on a “mischaracterization” of the law and noted that Indiana is the 20th state to enact such a law, building on the federal RFRA that former president Bill Clinton signed into law in 1993.
(11) Sena Cech released a statement about how her story was mischaracterized by Wallace.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Clinton and Sanders have heated exchange over trade in Sunday’s Democratic debate: ‘Excuse me, I’m talking’ At each rally, Sanders accused Clinton of “mischaracterizing” his 2009 vote to release funds as part of a financing package to save the auto industry and called her contention in one of the sharpest exchanges from Sunday’s debate “absolutely untrue”.
(13) In particular, they argue that the media has mischaracterized the Daraa uprisings, the catalyst for the two-year conflict , which are by-and-large considered to have been peaceful and civilian-led protests.
(14) But the Keystone XL pipeline has been mischaracterized, and the American people have been misled.
(15) Secretary Clinton went out of her way to mischaracterize my history as it relates to the 2008 auto industry bailout,” Sanders said in Kalamazoo.
(16) (p85) Hayek emphasized that it is a pure and simple – and highly misleading – mischaracterization of his own thought, and of liberal economic theory, to suggest that government should do nothing.
(17) [i] Mischaracterizes the level of scientific debate in the on GE technology: The story suggests that the scientific community is settled on the question of GE food safety, but this is not the case.
(18) Mischaracterization most likely results from a gram-negative work-up routine deficient for the isolation of halophilic organisms.
(19) It would not change what you did for the infant – at that stage it’s too premature.” One medical expert, who asked not to be named so as not to further conflagrate politics and women’s reproductive health, said that Fiorina had “totally mischaracterized” the facts of how such procedures really work.
(20) Scott Gordon, president of FairMormon, a volunteer organization that supports the church, said it would have been OK for Savannah to come out as gay during testimony, but that she crossed the line when she mischaracterized church teachings by saying God would want her to have a partner and get married.