What's the difference between misconception and misconstrue?

Misconception


Definition:

  • (n.) Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Various misconceptions about dietary carcinogens, pesticide residues, and cancer causation are discussed.
  • (2) Emphasizing this trend, we present our current approaches to managing retinoblastoma based on our experience with 324 patients, outlining our indications and pointing out a number of misconceptions about the role of enucleation, photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and radiotherapy in treating this condition.
  • (3) His views also suggest some serious misconceptions about teaching and learning in general.
  • (4) This conclusion is based on a misconception: that science graduates are limited to a career in science.
  • (5) We hope that this rejoinder clarifies some of the misconceptions that may arise from the Gross and Schuch article and that physical therapists consider very carefully the rationale for any type of exercise program for post-polio patients.
  • (6) The present research seems to confirm the fact that misconcepts induced by inadequacity of social status are more frequent and more intensive in patients with coronary troubles.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
  • (9) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
  • (10) Several myths and misconceptions feature prominently amid the instant reaction and punditry.
  • (11) There’s a great misconception that coming into care [work] is easy.” When the company advertised job roles as “care assistant” rather than “care worker”, it found that more people were interested, as the misconceptions about care work were left behind.
  • (12) Although participants had a fairly accurate understanding of the causes of HIV infection, modes of transmission and preventive measures, many myths and misconceptions existed.
  • (13) It was discovered that an overwhelming majority of parents had gross misconceptions about febrile convulsions, and took inappropriate or even harmful actions in an attempt to control the convulsions.
  • (14) Wide spread fears and misconceptions about condoms existed, e.g., condoms stay in the vagina.
  • (15) The study demonstrated that many patients with psoriasis have gaps in their knowledge of the disease or misconceptions that could be obstacles to effective treatment and disease prevention.
  • (16) Despite a common misconception, bronchogenic carcinoma of the left upper lobe frequently metastasizes to lymph nodes not only in the anterior mediastinum (para-aortic and subaortic) but also in the superior mediastinum.
  • (17) We have attempted to dispel many of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the use of narcotic analgesics in the treatment of childhood pain.
  • (18) As long as many women still find gyms – and particularly weights areas – unwelcoming, male-dominated spaces, it will prove difficult to tackle such misconceptions.
  • (19) The results of the study illustrate the misconception of chronic pain as an entity and highlight the importance of recognizing different neurobiological mechanisms and differences in responsiveness to analgesic drugs as well as to non-pharmacological modes of treatment.
  • (20) Dangerous misconceptions prevailed with regard to respondents' knowledge of areas including anatomy, physiology, and appropriate use of effective contraception.

Misconstrue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kramer has oversimplified and misconstrued statements by Rorschach, Beck, and Bohm; in reality, the criterion for the scoring of M responses in the Comprehensive System differs very little, if at all, from that suggested by Rorschach.
  • (2) But this argument misconstrues what is necessary to succeed in Iraq, and stubbornly ignores the facts of the broader strategic picture that we face.
  • (3) People have misconstrued what was in that report, particularly the IOC and international federations.
  • (4) Perhaps for all of the potential upsides there are still too many opportunities to fall foul of “death and gaffe watch” journalists waiting to pounce on a too-easily-misconstrued twitter picture.
  • (5) Interviewers must be tactful.” They need to try to clarify discrepancies and if they’re not convinced or the stories don’t add up, and the client has the right to explain anything that may have been misconstrued.
  • (6) Johnson, holding the press conference in the Foreign Office, said: “We can spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I’ve written over the last 30 years … All of which, in my view, have been taken out of context, through what alchemy I do not know – somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.
  • (7) On Wednesday three judges at the supreme court found the PSNI had “misconstrued” its legal powers to stop parades passing through or adjacent to the Short Strand area.
  • (8) On Wednesday, Nitschke’s legal team – led by Richard Niall QC after the death of Nitschke’s former lawyer Peter Nugent last month – said the medical board “misconstrued” its code of conduct when suspending Nitschke’s licence, and denied procedural fairness during the November hearing.
  • (9) The proposals were wilfully misconstrued as "a cap on rents", when they are nothing of the sort.
  • (10) Data in the frequency domain could be misconstrued, unless peculiarities of some acoustical measuring systems are understood.
  • (11) "It is regrettable a lot of facts and details got put out and misconstrued.
  • (12) That is, in at least some instances, one condition may have been mistaken for the other, and thus a factitious overlap or "sameness" misconstrued.
  • (13) The Vietnamese concepts of health and disease are presented, along with brief descriptions of certain folk medicines that are frequently misconstrued by American physicians.
  • (14) A spokesman added: "We never intended to promote our medicines for unauthorised indications but we can see how the communication could have been misconstrued especially if taken out of the context in which it written.
  • (15) We report a case of ventilator autocycling in a paralyzed patient secondary to an endotracheal cuff leak which was misconstrued as assisted ventilation.
  • (16) The principal influences investigated include the misconstrued emphasis given to the humanist ideology, which properly stresses the dignity of the individual; the social sciences' relativization of the cultural norms defining homosexuality; the influence of the mass media in disseminating these perspectives and thereby tending to create an acceptable image of homosexuality, and the tendency of all these changes to result in a substantial increase in public acceptance and tolerance of homosexuality.
  • (17) This paper argues 1) that an examination of cases shows that lying and deception are often morally equivalent, and 2) that Jackson's position is premised on a species of moral functionalism that misconstrues the nature of moral obligation.
  • (18) Standing alongside John Kerry , the US secretary of state, Johnson claimed his remarks had been misconstrued, that his past journalism had been taken out of context, and world leaders he had met since his appointment fully understood his past remarks.
  • (19) Fine, if he wants to spear me years later by deliberately misconstruing what I was saying to him.
  • (20) It wanted to make sure that the largest demonstration in the history of the US capital, demanding jobs and freedom and denouncing racism, was not misconstrued by the nation's enemies or potential allies.