(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.
Understand
Definition:
(v. t.) To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
(v. t.) To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
(v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
(v. t.) To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
(v. t.) To stand under; to support.
(v. i.) To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
(v. i.) To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(5) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(6) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(7) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(8) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(9) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(10) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
(11) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(12) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
(13) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
(14) A clearer understanding of these relationships and their application to clinical management await further study.
(15) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(16) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
(17) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(18) For a better understanding of the cytochrome P-450 mediated reactions, we studied the metabolism of midazolam in microsomal fractions prepared from twelve human livers.
(19) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
(20) We are already witnessing a wholly understandable uprising of protest.