Mots en English pour 'The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application.'
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noun
verb
verb
- To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
- to misinterpret designedly.
- (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
- (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
- (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
noun
noun
verb
- use wrongly or improperly or excessively
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- use foul or abusive language towards
- treat badly
- (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
- (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
- (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
noun
- improper or excessive use
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
- cruel or inhumane treatment
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
verb
verb
noun
- A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
- (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
- (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
- strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as ‘blatant’ to mean ‘flagrant’) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: ‘blind mouths’)
verb
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
adj
noun
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
adj
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
- expressing offensive reproach
- characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
adj
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- Faulty or defective.
- Inappropriate or improper.
- Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
noun
adj
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- badly timed
- contrary to conscience or morality or law
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
- not functioning properly
- based on or acting or judging in error
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
- Immoral, not good, bad.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Not working; out of order.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Twisted; wry.
adv
noun
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
verb
noun
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
verb
noun
noun
verb
- To throw badly.
- To do a poor job of promoting or selling someone or something, or to attemp such promotion at the wrong place or time.
- To give the wrong angle or pitch to.
- To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch.
- To discard incorrectly.
- To set up a tent or camp badly (poor construction, bad location, etc.)
noun
verb
noun
verb
- use wrongly or improperly or excessively
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- use foul or abusive language towards
- treat badly
- (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
- (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
- (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
noun
- improper or excessive use
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
- cruel or inhumane treatment
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
noun
- A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
- (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
- (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
- strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as ‘blatant’ to mean ‘flagrant’) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: ‘blind mouths’)
noun
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
verb
noun
noun
verb
- To throw badly.
- To do a poor job of promoting or selling someone or something, or to attemp such promotion at the wrong place or time.
- To give the wrong angle or pitch to.
- To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch.
- To discard incorrectly.
- To set up a tent or camp badly (poor construction, bad location, etc.)
verb
- To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
- to misinterpret designedly.
- (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
- (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
- (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
noun
verb
- use wrongly or improperly or excessively
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- use foul or abusive language towards
- treat badly
- (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
- (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
- (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
noun
- improper or excessive use
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
- cruel or inhumane treatment
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
verb
verb
noun
verb
verb
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
adj
noun
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
adj
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- badly timed
- contrary to conscience or morality or law
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
- not functioning properly
- based on or acting or judging in error
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
- Immoral, not good, bad.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Not working; out of order.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Twisted; wry.
adv
noun
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
verb
adj
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
- expressing offensive reproach
- characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
adj
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- Faulty or defective.
- Inappropriate or improper.
- Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
noun
adj
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- badly timed
- contrary to conscience or morality or law
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
- not functioning properly
- based on or acting or judging in error
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
- Immoral, not good, bad.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Not working; out of order.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Twisted; wry.
adv
noun
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).