(n.) A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
Example Sentences:
(1) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(2) Theories of denture retention have suffered from confusion of model, algebraic errors, and misapprehension of the physics of capillarity, adhesion and cohesion, as well as the role of atmospheric pressure.
(3) have had quite a deep impact, so I think some people react very defensively and dismissively to any feminist article on the misapprehension that it must be about taking men down, or calling all men sexist or ‘bad’ – which isn’t the case at all – I think this can cause some people to feel scared, that somehow by making women equal we will have to diminish men in some way.
(4) There is a misapprehension, he says, that every time a child sex crime reaches the media it disgraces the community.
(5) I must admit I was surprised, and found myself wondering if the misapprehension all comes down to bone structure.
(6) If there has been one constant throughout a music career lasting almost 30 years, Tracey Thorn would almost certainly say it has been other people's misapprehensions about what she's really like.
(7) The biggest misapprehension about Sondheim – that he puts intellect above feeling, as if the two aren't connected – rests, as he sees it, on a wrong-headed understanding of art; that it is driven by something imprecise and mystical, rather than hard, fast rules.
(8) As the many questions raised by a generic viewpoint are considered, one can observe that much of the resistance to this concept among professionals is attributable to fear of the unfamiliar, protection of vested interest, misapprehension about consequences and, not least, prejudice reflecting the stereotyped ideas of the general population.
(9) Bell said he "completely refuted" he was antisemitic and said he could "not be held responsible for whatever cultural precepts and misapprehensions people choose to bring to my cartoon".
(10) Cooper and Ryan describe interaction of penetrating missiles with tissues, they denounce that they call common misapprehensions in wound ballistic and they try to reconcile engineers works and clinical observations.
(11) She ordered her officials to "urgently consider how to approach the Americans on the question of possible Soviet misapprehensions about a surprise Nato attack".
(12) Only by doing so is there any prospect of dissolving the misapprehension that Vietnam veterans have been poisoned by herbicides.
(13) This misapprehension was caused, in part, by confusion with another pharyngeal resident, Neisseria cinerea.
(14) "But it rests on a fundamental misapprehension of what works.
(15) These misapprehensions may influence the management of wounds by suggesting didactic approaches based upon a preconceived notion of the nature and severity of the wound for different types of projectiles.
(16) Such misapprehensions can be helped by the counselor's willingness to discuss sexual issues openly.
(17) Spinal cord-injured clients have many fears and misapprehension about their sexual functioning.
(18) Many, including Girls creator Lena Dunham, have tweeted support for Dylan , while others have pointed to a blog from last week by the director Robert Weide, who made a documentary about Allen and who seeks to debunk some of the misapprehensions about the case.
(19) "By arresting, imprisoning and attempting to deport Sheikh Raed Salah on what the judge has determined as a 'misapprehension of the facts', the British government have acted in a shameful way," Sarah Colborne, the PSC's director, said.
(20) Talks could help to break down some of the misapprehensions that have inflamed the conflict.
Misunderstand
Definition:
(v. t.) To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(2) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(3) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
(4) The Florida senator said: “This simplistic notion that ‘leave Assad there because he’s a brutal killer, but he’s not as bad as what’s going to follow him’ is a fundamental and simplistic and dangerous misunderstanding of the reality of the region.” It’s unclear though how much the actual debate about policy between the two senators stood out from the political carnival surrounding them.
(5) In this way, they will be better able to avoid misunderstandings and head off potential conflicts.
(6) Following references to the development of the discipline and of the possible misunderstandings involved in an interpretation of the term "integration", the author makes reference to the dialogue-like structure of integration.
(7) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.
(8) And she thought these treatments would cure her – a common misunderstanding of how addiction works.
(9) This will mean that if you are sacked because your boss takes against you or because of a misunderstanding, you will be on your own unless you can afford to pay for a lawyer or you are a member of a trade union.
(10) So we started asking them ridiculous questions about being single," says Lucas, "and the sheer number of misunderstandings about each other's lives felt like comedic material."
(11) Various kinds of false reports are defined, described, and grouped according to type: misunderstandings, misreporting, distortion through illness, distortion by design, professional error, misrepresentation, and a grouping of less common instances.
(12) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(13) The risks involved in the misunderstanding of such an association are not without danger for the patient, particularly the risk of severe complication of possible coronary or carotid lesions, threatening survival; from this derives the necessity to decide automatically for a minimum of pre-surgery vascular investigations in the case of patients suffering from lung cancer.
(14) Following a thorough medical workup, the physician can best discharge his or her responsibility to the patient by paying attention to these possible misunderstandings.
(15) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(16) Consequently, a misunderstanding of roles and distortion in perception, for whatever reason, may influence the outcome of care.
(17) One successful method to overcome these misunderstandings is education.
(18) I cannot risk a whole game, I am a long-term coach.” Puzzled glances around the room alerted the manager to the possibility of a misunderstanding.
(19) 176, 137--142] have no real meaning because of a serious methodological misunderstanding by the authors.
(20) But there is that fear that there could be that one moment of misunderstanding with a young man of colour and that young man may never come back.” De Blasio’s comments were delivered against a backdrop of continued protests in many cities against recent incidents of police brutality and charges of a lack of accountability for police officers who have killed civilians.