(v. t.) To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
Example Sentences:
(1) The taxpayer remains on the hook for Northern Rock (Asset Management), which has about £50bn worth of mortgages, many of which were parked offshore in the perfectly misnamed "Granite" vehicle, which turned to dust during the credit crunch.
(2) The disorder is somewhat misnamed, because it is characterized by heavy deposition of fibrin in the decidua beneath the placenta rather than by arterial occlusion and ischemic necrosis of villi.
(3) We propose that the generically misnamed phytopathogenic Pseudomonas species should be transferred to the genus Acidovorax as Acidovorax avenae and Acidovorax konjaci.
(4) The receptive field surround is misnamed since it extends throughout the receptive field center and contributes to the response of the bipolar cell to stimuli located anywhere within the receptive field.
(5) I had to leap out of the bed ... " Another read-through, a dress rehearsal (misnamed for radio, as the cast performed in the clothes they had arrived in) and then at midday the audience arrived.
(6) Let the misnamed, misguided "war on terror" that replaced law and ethics with permanent exceptionalism be over.
(7) Neuropsychological investigation established the following points: (1) the patient, in whom no expressive or receptive dysphasia could be found, misnamed objects when they were presented to him tactually, whereas he almost always gave the correct name when they were presented visually or auditorily; (2) the naming disturbance was identical when the object was presented to the left hand or to the right hand; (3) not only did the patient have no sensory deficit, but he could give unquestionable proof of correct tactile identification by using the objects presented to him tactually; (4) the defect appeared in the verbo-tactile as well as in the tacto-verbal direction; (5) it was not restricted to the name of the object since the patient was unable to describe, without making dysphasic errors, the morphology or usage of objects presented to him tactually; (6) the tacto-verbal dysfunction did not result from a tacto-visual impairment.
(8) Abortion was illegal, so those who could afford to do so went to an “osteopath” or similarly misnamed doctor.
(9) Some Americans have panicked over Europe’s woefully misnamed right to be forgotten, anxious at the thought of the “ biggest threat to free speech online” “erasing history” and “breaking the internet”.
(10) Whe he began to talk about what he was doing, he misnamed many test items and behaved as if they were what he had called them.
(11) The taxonomic relationships of both of these species, two groups of clinical isolates (E. Falsen [EF] group 13 and EF group 16), and several unidentified or presently misnamed strains were examined by using DNA:rRNA hybridization, numerical analyses of biochemical and auxanographic features and of fatty acid patterns, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cellular proteins, and DNA:DNA hybridization.
(12) So we blithely dropped into our branch to see a misnamed customer service adviser who sucked his young teeth and said ooh no, they didn't offer anything like that.
(13) Some patients showed additional deficits including visual dyslexia, constructional dysgraphia and an increased rate of self-corrections and misnamings in object confrontation naming.
(14) A condition frequently misnamed "contracted tendons" is described in unweaned foals.
(15) The original misnamed an online bank account service for bitcoins as Bitwallet.
(16) (Confucius had complained millennia before that politically motivated misnaming led to the corruption of society.)
(17) Most errors were related to misnaming of diseases, certifying some diseases as occupational though they are not included in the mandatory list of occupational diseases, or--qualifying specific health disorders under improper items on the list.
(18) An earlier version misnamed Mike Bochenek as Mike Bostock.
(19) One reference in the original misnamed a constituency as Yorkshire and Humberside.
(20) DNA-rRNA hybridizations, DNA-DNA hybridizations, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins, and a numerical analysis of carbon assimilation tests were carried out to determine the relationships among the phylogenetically misnamed phytopathogenic taxa Pseudomonas avenae, Pseudomonas rubrilineans, "Pseudomonas setariae," Pseudomonas cattleyae, Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes subsp.
Misnomer
Definition:
(n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
(v. t.) To misname.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gonzalez acknowledged that the term "Russian mafia" was something of a misnomer since the criminal groups sometimes involved Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarussians and Chechens.
(2) The term "threatened abortion" is often a misnomer, for the fate of the pregnancy is decided when bleeding occurs.
(3) Perhaps due to the misnomer, annular or honeycomblike subepithelial opacities have come to be regarded as Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy.
(4) Because the Living Will advances the concept of negative euthanasia--an ethical, legal, and political misnomer--and abets the effort to legalize positive or direct euthanasia, it should not be given legal recognition.
(5) As the acrosyringium does not take part in formation of a dyshidrotic vesicle, the term "dyshidrosis" has to be regarded as a misnomer.
(6) Thus, so-called "nonspecific binding" was unmasked as a misnomer, and the expression "correction for trapping" was proposed as a substitute.
(7) The misnomer was coined by white explorers who rediscovered the ruins in 1860 and reasoned that the spectacular place must have been built for a king.
(8) ;Pseudomyxoma peritonei' is a misnomer and is caused by dissemination of a mucinous cystadenocarcinoma within the peritoneal cavity.
(9) It also shows that the term anesthesia is a misnomer for this modality, and that it should be called acupuncture analgesia.
(10) In these patients, EL seems to be a misnomer since the findings are suggestive of acute myeloblastic leukemia with secondary erythroid and granulocytic hyperplasia.
(11) Analysis : HS3 is a curious misnomer – at least when compared to HS2.
(12) The term "nasal glioma" is a confusing misnomer as it implies a neoplastic condition with malignant potential, which it is not.
(13) George suggests that “waste” is actually a misnomer since human faeces is an inexhaustible source of valuable nutrients.
(14) The "post-lunch dip" is a common behavioral phenomenon, though perhaps a misnomer.
(15) This so-called lupus anticoagulant was originally described in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus but is a misnomer as it is more frequently encountered in patients without lupus.
(16) In view of the increasing number of reports of this disease from other parts of Africa and the rest of the world, one wonders whether North American blastomycosis is not a misnomer.
(17) But critics have warned that the plans are incoherent and are being driven by private housebuilders, and that Osborne’s garden city label is a misnomer.
(18) To call the cartels “narcos”, as almost all media in the US and Mexico do, is a misnomer.
(19) Leaving aside for a second the misnomer “nontraditional” (cough, since the dawn of time, cough), it turns out Mizulina may have been right: for the gays are running riot.
(20) It was suggested that the term "nonspecific" vaginitis is a misnomer and is used to conceal ignorance.