wrong answer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwrongandanswer
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wrong
adjective
uk/rɒŋ/us/rɑːŋ/
not ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition ofwrongandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This study prefers to reflect on the rather more interesting response revealed by a 'wronganswer'.
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The students learn from each other without having to be afraid of being judged for awronganswer.
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Talking to participants before each session about there being no right orwronganswerand them being the experts resulted in some richly positive outcomes.
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Either problem would lead to awronganswer.
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In the second circumstance, the implication is that thewronganswerwas keyed as correct.
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I will not answer this last question here except to say that there is no right orwronganswer.
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The purely functionalist approach is therefore inadequate at a practical level not because it always leads to thewronganswer, all told, about what should be decided.
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That means there is no celebrity clique at the modified party, and the sub-quadratic algorithm returns thewronganswer.
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This is thewronganswer.
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The staircase procedure was such that two correct answers in a row advanced it to a higher spatial frequency, while onewronganswerbacked it up to a lower frequency.
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Use of ionization equilibrium radiative losses will give thewronganswer!
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I believe this had much to do with the context of the 'expert hat' and the continual reminders that there was no right orwronganswer.
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Under this method the pupil may choose thewronganswer.
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I sometimes wonder what they would do if the calculator gave them thewronganswer.
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Some employers might suspect the motive behind that question, feeling that, if they gave thewronganswer, the subsidy might be withdrawn.
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By asking the wrong question, we are likely to get thewronganswerand to legislate in the wrong way, resulting in disillusionment.
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Although they often, as it seems to me, get thewronganswer, their machinery in this field is very good.
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But if they both get thewronganswer, one is a little worried about how much co-operation there may have been.
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