How To Use Misnomer In A Sentence
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Salivation and thirst are great but the victim cannot swallow water because of throat muscle spasm hence the misnomer hydrophobia.
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Maybe the term "bussed" was a misnomer, as it sounds too organzied, but ...
BlogTO
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But, as I said, the title ‘Land Transport Management Bill’ is a total misnomer.
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I firmly believe that a consumer 'database'-the word database in this case is actually a misnomer-carrying the government's imprimatur must only include data that is accurate.
Slate Magazine
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It is, therefore, something of a misnomer to speak of the transfer of funds as there is no actual transfer of coins and banknotes from the payer to the payee.
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Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada-Reno said the term penny slots is a misnomer because most wagers on the devices are much greater.
WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
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Last year the day was labelled a misnomer, with the majority of motorists ignoring it, although some said they would be willing to try public transport if the system were improved.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I always thought that was a just a cute name… or a misnomer, like Pennsylvania Dutch.
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Yet while it all makes for good copy, the battle of the billionaires is a misnomer.
Washington State's Union Tax
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At over a mile and a half in length from top to toe,'pond ' was something of a misnomer.
AMAGANSETT
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The Dion tax “shift” and “revenue neutral” misnomer is now being exposed for every deceitful aspect.
2008 August 02 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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The disease name is actually a misnomer because North Carolina reports the most number of cases.
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Problem-solving perms re-texturize hair, adding body, wave, movement and volume, but to call them permanents is a misnomer.
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The word homeschooling is such a misnomer, because most of the learning does not happen anywhere near home, and school is such a loaded word that brings so many preconceived notions about learning to mind that it's really no wonder that people don't "get it.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Sorry for the outburst...
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While I have no objection to trying to get that trophy or the world record in fishing or hunting for that matter, it can create a significate misnomer about the sport and what we are all out there doing.
Dropping The Hammer (Again)
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_white ants_ or termites (which are ants only by a misnomer).
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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At this point, in the brutish life of an empire, the term conservative becomes a misnomer.
A Journey Through The Mind Of Contemporary Conservatism: Clutching Our Values Aboard The Death Train Of Empire
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Those who use the word "Nazi" as Sarandon did use it fallaciously, but the actor's misnomer does not automatically suggest "vindictiveness" as Foxman claims.
Michele Somerville: Should Susan Sarandon Apologize For Calling The Pope A "Nazi?"
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I have used the word verdure, but it is really a misnomer, for although the prevailing tint of the foliage was a dark green, the entire forest was streaked like a rainbow with innumerable flowers, and the breeze which blew from it was laden with the most delightful perfume, Evidently it was all a howling wilderness, for we could not detect the slightest vestige of human dwellings or cultivation.
A Trip to Venus
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Calling sounds like rain or thunder white noise is somewhat of a misnomer, but the makers of downloadable apps and sleep machines use the term anyway.
Listening to Shhhh in the City
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The term prairie is a misnomer in this case; instead we found a beautiful fruitful valley lying between two low ranges of hills, interspersed with groves of trees and picturesque lakes, and watered by a river winding gracefully through its whole length.
'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
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Incidentally, the term ‘pure essential oil’ (as claimed by the producers) is a misnomer because the highly toxic petrochemical solvent hexane is involved in the extraction process.
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Continental ideas on the subject, inclined to think the term a misnomer, and a reflection upon Europe and America.
The Siege of Kimberley
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I think particle board is often bad, and I think the biggest misnomer in this industry is, you think you're buying something like solid cherry wood, only to find out when you bring it home that it was actually a combination of materials.
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Because "done" is a misnomer around here, the ever-fabulous team of taraoshea (graphic design) and porpentine (back-end code) are hard at work preparing a redesign for SeananMcGuire.com, aka, "my website.
Seanan_mcguire: Website updates in the works.
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Stainless" is a misnomer; it should be described as "stain resistant" because it will discolor or oxidize a bit, but I don't clean my stainless rifles and sidearms any differently (or any less thoroughly) than those of blued or Parkerized steel.
I just ordered my first stainless gun, is there any difference between cleaning a stainless steel or blued gun?
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The word “insurance” in EI is also a misnomer since so many Canadians are denied coverage that they either get an emergency job they might not have taken ordinarily, or else go on welfare.
2008 February 28 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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In fact, the term “writer” is something of a misnomer, because we mut do so much more.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Audience Development: Critical to Every Writer’s Future
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And don't get me started on windscreen de-icer — a misnomer if ever there was one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schizophrenia is a misnomer but, for historical reasons, the name has remained.
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It was the scruffiest place I've ever stayed in, so 'Hotel Royal' was a bit of a misnomer.
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Herbal "tea" is something of a misnomer because these drinks contain no tea at all.
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He can play the daylights out of full-on postbop or explore north-Euro ambience, but he calls his hard-hitting Karma fusion group his "grunge band" – a misnomer for a rare splicing of rich-toned, pipe-like themes, fiercely guttural up-tempo tenor improv, Arabic and Irish music, and tight grooving.
This week's new live music
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One likely reason is his so-called neoclassical period, though as conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, who will be leading several of the festival's offerings, notes, the phrase is a misnomer.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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Although it is called catgut, this is a misnomer as it is sheep or goat intestines and not feline.
Steve Bell 27.01.11
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Fox News - aka Bush/Cheney/Limpbaugh Bastion of Lies - is a misnomer from the get-go.
Networks respond to false Fox ad
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During the nearly two-hour intermissionless talk -- for which "diatribe" mightn't be a misnomer -- technology-worshiping Daisey does acknowledge that Jobs was "the only hero I ever had.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple
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The notion of ‘free education’ is really a misnomer.
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The scientific misnomer is now reduced to a historical (and extremely harmful) moniker of a bygone era.
Comparing Teleological Predictions with their Non-teleological Counterparts
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Also, the term glycation is a misnomer, because a lot of the protein damage blamed on sugar actually comes from lipids.
Nutrition & Metabolism meeting | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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The term bedbug can be a misnomer," says Henriksen.
What you should know about bedbugs when you travel
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Maggerty the Rhinoherd was not the rhinoherd, but the misnomer served a humane purpose.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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_Julius Cæsar_, pronouncing the title a misnomer, on the ground that
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
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It is often pointed out that antisemitism (or anti-Semitism), meaning "anti-Jewish," is a misnomer since the word Semitic, strictly speaking, refers to a number of peoples, including Jews and
9/11, Antisemitism and Denial
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The "wrestling" in alligator wrestling is something of a misnomer.
Boing Boing
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I think that Web services may be a big misnomer.
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This year Noosa also hosted its third Noosa Longweekend, a name that is something of a misnomer considering the event runs for 10 days.
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It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
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The term "alphabet" is something of a misnomer here, though, as Hebrew script is not in fact an alphabet, but an abjad; that is, a script with only consonants.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The latter designation is a misnomer, because a mild degree of ketosis often is present, and a true coma is uncommon.
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Hide was a misnomer, of course, since the scrapes reported that the creature's tegument wasn't any more multicellular than the rest of it.
Doctor’s Orders
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To say that they were "declassified" is somewhat of a misnomer because some of the German records were captured after World War II.
Declassified: 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History by Thomas B. Allen
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Even the very term, pro bono — short for pro bono publico (literally, for good or for the public good) — is a misnomer and arrogation on the part of the too often self-admiring attorney and legalclass.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
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Consider one of the misnomers for the product, ‘blacktop.’
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Whatever may be the medicinal virtues of these foods, or however appropriate the term "condimental" which has been applied to them, it is quite certain that their whilom designation "concentrated" was a misnomer.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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We are often told that the term killer whale is a misnomer, and that might be true in the wild as far as humans are concerned.
Crosscut
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Unfortunately, this infamous misnomer was only the first of a series of mistakes made by the first foreigner to set eyes on the place: Hiram Bingham.
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It is a misnomer to classify this as a deponent verb; the middle force of the verb is not absent.
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The term attention-deficit disorder turns out to be a misnomer.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Fanny learned that the mill girls liked the bright-colored and expensive wares, and why; she learned that the woman with the "fascinator" (tragic misnomer!) over her head wanted the finest sled for her boy.
Fanny Herself
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More recently it was called fibrositis a misnomer, because the suffix ‘itis’ suggests inflammation.
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For years that name ‘Softbank’ has seemed a slight misnomer.
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It reinforces my belief that our domain is a bit of a misnomer.
Snark Defined « Snarkmarket
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` ` Which only goes to show '', said Colombo, ` ` that sorcery is somewhat akin to business, and now that I think of it '', said Colombo, ` ` I believe that the term wizard of industry is perhaps not entirely a misnomer. ''
A Parody Outline of History
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The process of electrotyping is as follows: The form is locked up very tightly, and is then coated with a surface of graphite, commonly known as blacklead, but it is a misnomer.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
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Even composting is a misnomer - What this breaks down into can hardly be described as something nourishing and usable as compost.
SunChips Packaging to be 100% Compostable by Earth Day 2010
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Egyptian officials maintain that as applied to the U.S. groups, the term "nongovernmental organization" is a misnomer, considering that most of their funding comes from the U.S. Congress.
New Egypt More Distrustful Than Old, U.S. Groups Say
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The essay did make the point that the name “greenhouse effect” is a misnomer, which is correct.
Archive 2008-02-01
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I am not surprised, for it comes under the category of legend and not fact, if that term is not a misnomer when applied to the Dark Ages.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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The term ray is a misnomer, as cosmic particles arrive individually, not in the form of a ray or beam of particles.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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The mistake is in a way only a misnomer, but terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion, and so it is here.
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The term codex is something of a misnomer but it has become standard usage.
Primary sources
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It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
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Indeed, the very name seems a misnomer, suggesting that justice has been definitely achieved just by spending a few extra pennies that fair trade guarantees above the market price.
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It was the scruffiest place I've ever stayed in, so 'Hotel Royal' was a bit of a misnomer.
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Regarding the so-called "dynasties" - POSSIBLY AN OFFENSIVE ANALOGY / MISNOMER written by Augustus, December 16, 2008
Home
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The "wrestling" in alligator wrestling is something of a misnomer.
Boing Boing
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It's just that if we can get interlocution without some or all of that baggage, it would be a feat in its own right, but to call it Artificial Intelligence would be a misnomer, I think.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Give Bush credit for his Aids program in Africa, but his “compassionate conservatism” was a misnomer from the “get go”.
Bush’s Farewell - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The name is a bit of a misnomer, as I actually would slightly bend my knees, thereby taking stress off them.
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‘Pulse bombs’ was a misnomer, but a favourite name for the EMP charges.
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The term nonprofit can be a misnomer when it comes to hospitals, because 77 percent of the nation's 2,033 nonprofit hospitals operate in the black, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
TheSunNews.com: Local
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“Dehorned” may be a misnomer in many cases as the young calves typically have not started growing their horns yet – it is the growth ring that is cauterized (which is, by the way, probably the most frequent way to “dehorn”).
What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar
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Regarding the so-called "dynasties" - POSSIBLY AN OFFENSIVE ANALOGY / MISNOMER
Home
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Even fancy dishes, such as Oysters Kirkpatrick, would be better if made of the eastern oyster, not what they call the eastern oyster here, for that is a misnomer, but the oysters that grow in the Atlantic Ocean.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.
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By your same standard, AI ought to be a total misnomer, or the field of study is discredited from the start since it has no definition (a position I do not hold since I accept weak AI).
Aiguy's Computer
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In fact the title of the book is a bit of a misnomer.
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There is also a religious revival in France generally: it is a misnomer to think of the 19th Century as a secular age.
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Every rosette is handmade and ruffled at the factory in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, fashioned in velvet, super-satin, acetate or a type of cord called faille, which seems a strange misnomer when it's associated with success.
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In an attempt to dispel fears about bats, the teachers were told how the name ‘vampire bat’ is almost a misnomer for the three species of bats that do suck blood.
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Today, Buddha Dog has done away the term aioli, which means garlic mayonnaise but has become a misnomer for many flavoured varieties.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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The new Williams credits Clark with the idea that AFE is similar to anaphylaxis and with the suggestion that the name amniotic fluid embolism (or "amnionic," as Williams puts it) is a misnomer.
Chicago Reader
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But here, on this side of the world, alas and alack, the very name is a misnomer.
COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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The word "knead" is a misnomer, however, as the action of folding and pushing biscuit dough is a far more delicate technique: Pull the dough over itself from the far side, making a double layer, and then, with the palm of your hand, push the dough forward with only the lightest pressure, to smear some of the small butter pieces in the dough.
Archive 2009-09-01
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I still think that side of the polling is a misnomer given the nature of the different regions and specific spots of Scotland.
The latest poll
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Describing Ivan Markovic's designs as lights is a bit of a misnomer.
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The problem, many have said, is that the word interrogation can be a misnomer, since it rarely plays a significant role in the fact-finding part of a police investigation.
Long Way Home
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Macro-Microbe locomoted himself inside the building of NextDrug Corporation, and soon faced a receptionist, which was another misnomer because Macro-Microbe had no face.
The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe
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It's true - "diaries" is something of a misnomer, as "scrapbooks" would more accurately describe the collection of old photographs, hand-scrawled song lyrics and other documents that fill these pages.
October 2006
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The name amicus curiae is generally acknowledged as something of a misnomer, in that very few amici intend primarily to help the court.
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The term ‘student work’ seems a misnomer here, given the clarity and maturity of her production.
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Stainless" is a misnomer; it should be described as "stain resistant" because it will discolor or oxidize a bit, but I don't clean my stainless rifles and sidearms any differently (or any less thoroughly) than those of blued or Parkerized steel.
I just ordered my first stainless gun, is there any difference between cleaning a stainless steel or blued gun?
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This is a complete misnomer; it is an eight metre high sheer concrete wall with watchtowers.
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I was actually trying to single out Shang Yang from the rest of the 'legalists', and tried to argue that the later legalists probably have mis-understood Shang's spirit and believes. in other words, calling Shang a legalist is a misnomer.
Misnomer of the legalist Shang Yang, and how to fix the mess in China's legal system
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First, the word campground is somewhat of a misnomer, as some RV parks resemble a campground as much as a convenience store resembles an urban supermall.
The RVer’s Bible
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In the post-modern context, however, it would be a misnomer to use family in this sense.
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It was the scruffiest place I've ever stayed in, so 'Hotel Royal' was a bit of a misnomer.
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It was not a careers forum and he reckoned that that title was a misnomer.
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Unfortunately for anyone interested in the economic history of this industry, however, the subtitle is a misnomer, in a number of respects.
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The very interesting article from which the quotation has just been made seems to think the term "deaconess" a misnomer for the Kaiserswerth deaconess, as she belongs to a community, whereas the deaconess of the early Church was attached to a congregation and belonged to a single church as an officer; but it may well be questioned whether the class of duties assigned to the deaconess of the early Church and of modern times alike, that is, the nursing of the sick, the care of the infirm in body and mind, the succoring of the unfortunate, and the education of children, are not the main characteristics of the office of a deaconess, while the fact of her connection with a number of like-minded women in community life is merely an external feature of the office as it has developed in the nineteenth century.
Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America
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Technically, the title of this collection includes something of a misnomer since none of the works on the disc is a quintet in the accepted sense of the word.
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'Silent movie' is a misnomer since the movies usually had a musical accompaniment.
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Even the term "rush hour" is a misnomer, since when we are sitting in one we certainly are not rushing anywhere!
Thestar.com - Home Page
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In many respects the term micro-blogging is a bit of a misnomer.
Muti
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Thus, the term high-risk or oncogenic HPV is a relative misnomer.15
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Calling the term a misnomer, Greenwood says, "there's a misperception that improving a product somehow thwarts generic companies from getting in the game.
GEN News Highlights
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Herbal "tea" is something of a misnomer because these drinks contain no tea at all.
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And don't get me started on windscreen de-icer — a misnomer if ever there was one.
Times, Sunday Times
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When deployed, a chemical in the device heats up to several hundred degrees, vaporizing a solvent that carries the dry chemical into the air the term "tear gas" is a misnomer-it is actually a fine acid powder aerosol, not a gas.
Forbes.com: News
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The new Williams credits Clark with the idea that AFE is similar to anaphylaxis and with the suggestion that the name amniotic fluid embolism (or "amnionic," as Williams puts it) is a misnomer.
Chicago Reader
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Pink peppercorns (a misnomer, as they are unrelated to true peppercorns) come from two plants native to South America: the Peruvian peppertree (
The Kitchn
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Gideon and Annie agreed the word trivia is in many ways a misnomer for important knowledge.
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Studies at the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt have shown that multitasking is really a misnomer.
Joe Robinson: Is Email Making You Stupid?
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It's something of a misnomer to refer to these inexperienced boys as soldiers.
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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Although the term leopard, as applied to panthers, has the sanction of almost immemorable custom, I do not see why, in writing on the subject, we should perpetuate the misnomer, especially as most naturalists and sportsmen are now inclined to make the proper distinction.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Since neurogenic genes do not exhibit proneural activity, the name ‘Tufted’ is somewhat of a misnomer.
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The title prefixed to this paper would be a misnomer, if I did not add a list of books which it may be desirable to consult: --
Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849
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It occurred to me soon after Sam got home, in fact-when I felt lighter, happier, and had exercised my bragging rights insufferably about his adaptation to college-that the term empty nest is a misnomer.
Slate Magazine
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I've recently spent time in several of the nation's major barbecue regions, and I've come to the conclusion that the term "barbecue" is misleading, a misnomer that implies that these widely disparate food items are in some essential way the same thing.
Archive 2005-10-01
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His title Head of Strategy and Communications was a vast misnomer.
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It is our observation that their findings were not true cysts (filled with fluid); the term pseudocyst is also a misnomer.
