misread

Verb

misread (third-person singular simple present misreads, present participle misreading, simple past and past participle misread)

1. To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
   • In the circumstances the Inspecting Officer concludes that the electric train motorman, despite his assertions to the contrary, misread the up main relief inner home signal for his own and ran past the up main through inner home signal at danger; he must therefore be held responsible for the...1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138
   • Now I'm in / over my head, with something I said. / Completely misread I'm better off dead.2002, “Over My Head (Better Off Dead)”, in Does This Look Infected? (CD), performed by Sum 41, Island Records, via YouTube, →OCLC

Noun

IPA/ˈmɪs.ɹiːd/

misread (plural misreads)

1. An instance of reading wrongly.
   • Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.1983, Lawrence Calmus, The business guide to small computers, page 143
   • To bait the mark, the veteran grifter initially covers one of the three numbers on the clothespin or miscounts the marble tally which serves to award the mark fairbanked points. The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket