| misconstrue | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand | interpret in the wrong way.; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" |
| ~ construe, interpret, see | make sense of; assign a meaning to.; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" |
| misinterpret | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. misinterpret | interpret falsely. |
| ~ rede, interpret | give an interpretation or explanation to. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. misinterpret, misread | interpret wrongly.; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" |
| ~ read, take | interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression.; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" |
| misread | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. misread | read or interpret wrongly.; "He misread the data" |
| ~ read, scan | obtain data from magnetic tapes.; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" |
| ab | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. ab, artium baccalaurens, ba, bachelor of arts | a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences. |
| ~ bachelor's degree, baccalaureate | an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies. |
| n. (time) | 2. ab, av | the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August). |
| ~ hebrew calendar, jewish calendar | (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years. |
| ~ jewish calendar month | a month in the Jewish calendar. |
| n. (body) | 3. ab, abdominal, abdominal muscle | the muscles of the abdomen. |
| ~ skeletal muscle, striated muscle | a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes. |
| ~ abdomen, belly, stomach, venter | the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis. |
| ~ abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, oblique | a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso. |
| ~ musculus transversalis abdominis, transverse muscle of abdomen, transversus abdominis, transversus abdominis muscle | a flat muscle with transverse fibers that forms the anterior and lateral walls of the abdominal cavity. |
| n. (body) | 4. ab, group ab, type ab | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. |
| ~ blood group, blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens. |
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