mistake🔊

To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

(obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).

(obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.

(rare) To take or choose wrongly.

An error. +

(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.