What's the difference between mishear and misunderstand?
Mishear
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.
Example Sentences:
(1) And are violations of the rule obvious products of mishearing, careless reading, or a chintzy attempt to sound highfalutin?
(2) The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco has been getting a lot of play this week—as William Shatner’s secret daughter in the new Priceline ads , and now as a goofy genie who mishears wishes Emily Litella -style while promoting the Toyota RAV4 .
(3) One change no one could have predicted is that from the 80s onwards, Maxwell Davies acquired a “light music” manner, reflected in such pieces as Farewell to Stromness (1980) and Mavis in Las Vegas (1997), the latter inspired by a hotel receptionist’s mishearing of his distinguished English guest’s name as “Mavis”.
(4) I’ve always called him Cold Pecker and I always will.” I mishear her.
(5) But troubles with the name (not least that people mishear it as "Cadaver") prompt a change.
(6) he wails in mock misery when he mishears or fails to comprehend something the rest of us got instantly.
(7) In a halting performance, at times pausing, mumbling and mishearing, Murdoch said those culpable were "the people I hired and trusted, and perhaps then people who they hired and trusted".
(8) That was based on a mishearing of a recording of the call.
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.