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Mislocates vs Dislocates - What's the difference?

mislocates | dislocates |

As verbs the difference between mislocates and dislocates

is that mislocates is (mislocate) while dislocates is (dislocate).

mislocates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mislocate)

  • mislocate

    English

    Verb

    (mislocat)
  • To locate incorrectly.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Fred A. Bernstein, title=Lifting a High Ranch to New Heights, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The first time the wall was poured, the seams in the form (which produced corresponding lines in the concrete) were mislocated . }}

    dislocates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dislocate)

  • dislocate

    English

    Verb

  • to put something out of its usual place
  • (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate , til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}
  • * Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.
  • Synonyms

    * displace