ボタンの掛け違い

ボタンのかけちがい

being at cross-purposes from the start; getting off on the wrong foot; doing up one's buttons wrongly

ボタンを掛け違える

ボタンをかけちがえる

to button up wrong, start from the wrong button

掛け違う

かけちがう

to cross paths, to conflict

掛け違い

putting (up) in the wrong place; hanging in the wrong place; doing up (buttons) incorrectly

ボタンを掛ける

ボタンをかける

to fasten a button

掛け替え

かけかえ かけがえ

replacement, substitution, rebuilding, changing

掛け替えのない

かけがえのない

irreplaceable

掛け替える

かけかえる

to replace, to substitute

人違え

ひとちがえ

mistaken identity, person so changed that it's hard to recognize him (recognise)

違える

ちがえる たがえる

to change, to alter

夢違え

ゆめちがえ ゆめたがえ

act of praying or performing an incantation so that a bad dream does not come true

間違え

まちがえ

mistake, error, blunder

寝違え

ねちがえ

kink in one's neck, sprained neck.

差違え

さしちがえ

overruling referee's decision of bout outcome

方違え

かたたがえ

setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period)

ボタンの木

ボタンのき

buttonwood tree (the American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis), buttonball tree

掛け

かけ がけ

-clad

数え違える

かぞえちがえる

to miscount, to count wrongly (e.g. pages)

猿の腰掛け

さるのこしかけ サルノコシカケ

polypore (bracket fungus, esp. of family Polyporaceae)