Accident vs. Mistake
Accident and Mistake Definitions
Accident
An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm
An accident on the assembly line.
Car accidents on icy roads.
Mistake
An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
Accident
An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause
A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.
Mistake
A misconception or misunderstanding.
Accident
An instance of involuntary urination or defecation.
Mistake
To understand wrongly; misinterpret
Mistook my politeness for friendliness.
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Accident
Lack of intention; chance
Ran into an old friend by accident.
Mistake
To recognize or identify incorrectly
He mistook her for her sister.
Accident
(Philosophy) An attribute of a substance that is not essential to its nature.
Mistake
To make a mistake; err.
Accident
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
To die by an accident such as an act of God
Act of God
Mistake
(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
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Accident
(legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
Mistake
To misunderstand (someone).
Accident
(transportation) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity.
There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
Mistake
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
Accident
Any chance event.
Mistake
To take or choose wrongly.
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Accident
(uncountable) Chance; random chance.
Mistake
An error; a blunder.
There were too many mistakes in the test, that unfortunately you failed.
Accident
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
Beauty is an accident.
Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
Mistake
(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.
Accident
(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
Mistake
To take or choose wrongly.
Accident
(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
Mistake
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.
My father's purposes have been mistook.
Accident
Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
Mistake
To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.
A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.
Accident
(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
Mistake
To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
Mistake me not so much,To think my poverty is treacherous.
Accident
A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
Taylor was our sweet little accident, and we're so glad!
Well I may be annoying but at least I'm not an accident like you are
Mistake
To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends.
Accident
(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
Mistake
An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake.
Accident
(geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.{{cite book|
Mistake
Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
Accident
(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
Mistake
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;
He made a bad mistake
She was quick to point out my errors
I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
Accident
(transportation) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
Mistake
An understanding of something that is not correct;
He wasn't going to admit his mistake
Make no mistake about his intentions
There must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister
Accident
Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
Of moving accidents by flood and field.
Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:It is the very place God meant for thee.
Mistake
Part of a statement that is not correct;
The book was full of errors
Accident
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
Mistake
Identify incorrectly;
Don't mistake her for her twin sister
Accident
A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
Mistake
To make a mistake or be incorrect
Accident
A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
Accident
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea.
Accident
Unusual appearance or effect.
Accident
A mishap; especially one causing injury or death
Accident
Anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
