单词 | miscalculate |
释义 | miscalculate (once / 4454 pages) v If you add two plus two and get five, you miscalculate. In other words, you've added the numbers incorrectly. You can use the verb miscalculate when you're talking about actual mathematical calculations, or when you measure something in an inexact way and get it wrong. Another way to use the word is to mean "judge incorrectly," which happens when you guess that your grandmother will laugh after sitting on a whoopie cushion, but you guess wrong. Mis, in this word, means "bad or wrong," and calculate means "to compute or estimate." WORD FAMILYmiscalculate: miscalculated, miscalculates, miscalculating, miscalculation+/calculable: calculably, incalculable/calculate: calculable, calculated, calculates, calculating, calculation, calculative, calculator, miscalculate, recalculate/calculated: calculatedly/calculating: calculatingly/calculation: calculations/calculative: calculatively/calculator: calculators/incalculable: incalculably/miscalculation: miscalculations/recalculate: recalculated, recalculates, recalculating, recalculation/recalculation: recalculations USAGE EXAMPLESRenzi sorely miscalculated in the runup to the Dec. 4 referendum on constitutional reforms, vowing to resign if it failed. Seattle Times(Dec 06, 2016) And Dunnington “clearly understood” that DOC’s database was miscalculating release dates for certain offenders, the report added. Seattle Times(Dec 02, 2016) But gauging the success of those advertisements has been a struggle, highlighted by Facebook’s recent admission that it had miscalculated video viewing metrics for years. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) 1v calculate incorrectly I miscalculated the number of guests at the wedding Syn|Hyper misestimate calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out make a mathematical calculation or computation 2v judge incorrectly Syn|Hyper misestimate misjudge judge incorrectly |
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