misname

Archaic To call by an incorrect name;misname.

the place is misnamed—it's too well organized to be a wilderness.

But what happens is that it is destryed,and more than by any other one thing,it is destryed by the process that we misname education——a process that goes on in most homes and schools.

It is easy to misname a new acquaintance.

Do not misname the author of the book.

The teacher tends to misname students during roll call.

She would often misname famous landmarks.

He accidentally misnamed his favorite movie.

Please don't misname the ingredients in the recipe.

The journalist misnamed the event in his article.

It's embarrassing to misname someone in a formal setting.

She tends to misname colors when describing them.

He didn't mean to misname the character in the play.

That turned the sweatband up into view, and it had not been misnamed.

How might people often feel when they were misnamed?

What is most likely the cause of misnaming?

What did the surveys of more than 1,700 subjects find about misnaming?

Why do mothers misname their children more often than fathers?

What did David Rubin's research find about misnaming?

The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried.

According to the first research to tackle this topic head-on, misnaming the most familiar people in our life is a common cognitive error that has to do with how our memories classify and store familiar names.