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ERROR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Example:
I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("error" is a kind of...):
nonaccomplishment; nonachievement (an act that does not achieve its intended goal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "error"):
renege; revoke (the mistake of not following suit when able to do so)
betise; folly; foolishness; imbecility; stupidity (a stupid mistake)
balls-up; ballup; cockup; mess-up (something badly botched or muddled)
bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall (an embarrassing mistake)
omission; skip (a mistake resulting from neglect)
lapse; oversight (a mistake resulting from inattention)
offside ((sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.))
miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up (a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.)
distortion (the mistake of misrepresenting the facts)
miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning (a mistake in calculating)
incursion (the mistake of incurring liability or blame)
confusion; mix-up (a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another)
blot; smear; smirch; spot; stain (an act that brings discredit to the person who does it)
Derivation:
err (to make a mistake or be incorrect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
Synonyms:
error; misplay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("error" is a kind of...):
failure (an act that fails)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Inadvertent incorrectness
Synonyms:
erroneousness; error
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("error" is a kind of...):
incorrectness; wrongness (the quality of not conforming to fact or truth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "error"):
deviation (the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances)
Derivation:
err (to make a mistake or be incorrect)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Departure from what is ethically acceptable
Synonyms:
error; wrongdoing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("error" is a kind of...):
evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A misconception resulting from incorrect information
Synonyms:
erroneous belief; error
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("error" is a kind of...):
misconception (an incorrect conception)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Part of a statement that is not correct
Example:
the book was full of errors
Synonyms:
error; mistake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("error" is a kind of...):
misstatement (a statement that contains a mistake)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "error"):
corrigendum (a printer's error; to be corrected)
erratum; literal; literal error; misprint; typo; typographical error (a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind)
Sense 7
Meaning:
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
Synonyms:
computer error; error
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("error" is a kind of...):
happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "error"):
hardware error (error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer)
programming error; software error (error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result)
algorithm error (error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result)
Context examples:
Because the nut intake was self-reported, errors are inevitable, and there was not data on how the nuts were prepared, so the influence of preparation methods was not able to be tested.
(Eating Regular Variety of Nuts Associated with Lower Risk of Heart Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Look at it carefully for errors and typos, as you may miss one or two, or let someone else have a look.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Quite right, quite right. Your error is that you failed to expect the worst.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Was it a selfish error that was leading me away?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In that, however, I was in error.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But we are all liable to error.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they had seen a swimming house.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Errors in metabolic processes resulting from inborn genetic mutations that are inherited or acquired in utero.
(Congenital Metabolic Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
