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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misunderstanding
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
avoid
▪ On major and minor issues you should give fair answers to queries about the job to avoid misunderstandings and resentment later on.
▪ This helps avoid a lot of misunderstandings down the shared road of life.
▪ However, there is no practical way in which it is possible to avoid all such misunderstandings and conflict.
▪ Take care to avoid needless misunderstandings.
▪ This will help to avoid any misunderstandings or arguments as to when, how and what will be settled by contra.
▪ So she wrote to the box number and suggested a date for a preliminary viewing to avoid disappointment or misunderstandings.
▪ Any restrictions on our ability to act should be clearly set out to avoid misunderstandings.
▪ To avoid misunderstanding, even disappointment, it needs some careful qualification.
based
▪ I was attending elsewhere to an immigration problem which was based on a misunderstanding between the Home Office and the Foreign Office.
▪ But such incidents are wildly exceptional, and based on fanatical misunderstandings of what fiction does or seeks to do.
▪ The remarks about top-up by local offices was also based on a misunderstanding.
▪ All this is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about the social life of cats.
▪ So this account seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what Labov's work has been about.
▪ I shall deal with the second recommendation first, because it is based upon a complete misunderstanding.
cause
▪ Here are some reasons: Mishearing can cause misunderstandings which may be embarrassing or even funny but certainly not reassuring.
▪ This difference of opinion was not caused by cultural misunderstanding but by social conflict.
▪ This can cause misunderstanding and conflict when in later life they talk to one another.
clear
▪ You seem to have cleared this whole misunderstanding up quite satisfactorily.
▪ The best partners have a trust that clears up all misunderstandings.
▪ They are there to help you and will want to clear away any misunderstanding.
▪ Cultural exchange can do much to clear up misunderstandings.
▪ I did succeed a bit in keeping some degree of order, asking clarifying questions, and clearing up misunderstandings.
▪ He even met with the Anti-Defamation League to try and clear the air of misunderstandings.
lead
▪ It's an important issue, and has led to some serious misunderstandings about the teaching of drama.
▪ This can lead to misunderstanding, mutual frustration, anger, quarrelling and perhaps aggression.
▪ The regulations state specifically that such investigations shall be held in private, and this sometimes leads to misunderstanding.
▪ This can lead to considerable misunderstanding between members of different societies as the following example provided by Otto Klineberg shows.
▪ This can lead to misunderstandings and conclusions which can be misleading.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Misunderstandings can be caused by cultural differences between workers.
▪ Cultural differences between people from different countries can sometimes lead to misunderstandings.
▪ Listening carefully reduces misunderstandings.
▪ There seems to have been a misunderstanding. I didn't order steak.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He even met with the Anti-Defamation League to try and clear the air of misunderstandings.
▪ It is no wonder that misunderstandings arose, but they should not have affected our professional relationship.
▪ On another front, Farrakhan met last week with 10 Phoenix area business and community leaders to try to erase misunderstandings.
▪ There has been a misunderstanding of the Government's plans from the point of view of social security benefits.
▪ This helps avoid a lot of misunderstandings down the shared road of life.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misunderstanding

Misunderstand \Mis*un`der*stand"\ (m[i^]s*[u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misunderstood (m[i^]s*[u^]n`d[~e]r*st[oo^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Misunderstanding.] To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding \Mis*un`der*stand"ing\, n.

  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.
    --Bacon.

  2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. ``Misunderstandings among friends.''
    --Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misunderstanding

"want of understanding," mid-15c., from present participle of misunderstand.\n\nWhen misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

[Lionel Trilling]

\nMeaning "dissention, disagreement" is first recorded 1640s.\n
Wiktionary
misunderstanding

n. 1 A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception. 2 A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. vb. (present participle of misunderstand English)

WordNet
misunderstanding

  1. n. putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning" [syn: misinterpretation, mistaking]

  2. an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister" [syn: mistake, misapprehension]

Wikipedia
Misunderstanding (Al B. Sure! song)

"Missunderstanding" is the title of a number-one R&B single by Al B. Sure!. Taken from Sure!'s second album Private Times...and the Whole 9!, it spent a week at number one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number forty-two on the Billboard Hot 100.

Misunderstanding (Genesis song)

"Misunderstanding" is a song by English rock band Genesis, released on their 1980 album Duke. It reached No. 14 in the U.S. and No. 42 in the UK. Its highest charting was in Canada, where it reached No. 1 and is ranked as the seventh biggest Canadian hit of 1980.

Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding may refer to:

  • A mistaken or incorrect understanding
  • Misunderstanding (Genesis song)
  • Misunderstanding (Al B. Sure! song)
  • "Misunderstandings", an episode of As Time Goes By
  • Major Misunderstanding, a character in the British adult comic Viz

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Usage examples of "misunderstanding".

On account of the isolation of Russia, and the misunderstanding arising therefrom, it also is not affiliated with the Communist Congress of Moscow.

In 1847 he had hopes of the consulship at Canton, but Bowring wanted it for himself, and a misunderstanding over this led to an inevitable break of old friendship.

News-Picture-of-the-Month award from the AP for a photograph -of Knight Horsey de Ia Chevaux in full uniform formally-surrendering his ceremonial sword to Captain Grogarty of the riot squad following a misunderstanding at the OooLa-La Show Bar.

This had to be a cultural misunderstanding of stupendous, humongous, proportions.

Any feud between Marle and Kendler had been dependent upon misunderstanding, as Cardona reasoned it.

I need only touch on the common modes of misunderstanding or misapplying the evidence of nature.

This misunderstanding was explained at the congress of Geneva by the statement that the interaction of the social and telluric environment is required also in the case of the born criminal.

Many persons pressed up to Theos, and shaking hands with him, offered their eager excuses and apologies for the misunderstanding that had lately taken place, explaining with much animation both of look and gesture, that the fact of his wearing the same style of dress as themselves had induced them to take it for granted that he must be one of their fellow-citizens, and therefore subject to the laws of the realm.

Before leaving he had made sure to visit Anna Hauptmann, and to tell her in plain hearing of half the village that he was off to fetch his bride to Albany so she could testify on her own behalf and clear up these misunderstandings.

A misunderstanding is easier to pass off than a Bactrian in the arms of the princess royal.

Our traditions say that he carved the essential stances and techniques of Wing Chun into a set of ivory chops in order to preserve the system from later misunderstanding.

If the crooks were blamed for the kill, public opinion would class them as friends of the notorious Chet Conroy, who had turned against him through some misunderstanding.

I know that I was misunderstanding my need for protection, my joy at being saved, with the painful sensuality Styur had awakened within me, and I wanted to share myself with Cyl the only way I had known how for month.

We see that disincarnated beings are capable of misunderstanding as well as ourselves.

After the war was over, you find yourself cheering for the men who later fought military bureaucracy and misunderstanding to get these valiant dogs back to the families who volunteered them for service.