пу́тать — meaning in English
putat
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English meaning
Senses
пу́тать is used for these senses in English:
- conflate (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
- confound To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
- confuse (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- confuse (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
- muss (transitive) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.
conflate — full definition
- verb To bring two or more things together as one.
- verb To wrongly treat two different things as if they were the same.
- verb To link two things together on purpose to create a false impression.
confound — full definition
- verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
- verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
- verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
- noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").
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