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English noun: error | |||
| 1. | error (act) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | ||
| Samples | He made a bad mistake. She was quick to point out my errors. I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults. | ||
| Synonyms | fault, mistake | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | balls-up, ballup, betise, bloomer, blooper, blot, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, cockup, confusion, distortion, flub, folly, foolishness, foul-up, fuckup, imbecility, incursion, lapse, mess-up, miscalculation, miscue, misestimation, misreckoning, mix-up, offside, omission, oversight, parapraxis, pratfall, renege, revoke, skip, slip, slip-up, smear, smirch, spot, stain, stupidity | ||
| 2. | error (attribute) inadvertent incorrectness | ||
| Synonyms | erroneousness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | incorrectness, wrongness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deviation | ||
| 3. | error (cognition) a misconception resulting from incorrect information | ||
| Synonyms | erroneous belief | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | misconception | ||
| 4. | error (act) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed | ||
| Synonyms | misplay | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | failure | ||
| Domain category | baseball, baseball game | ||
| 5. | error (attribute) departure from what is ethically acceptable | ||
| Synonyms | wrongdoing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | evil, evilness | ||
| 6. | error (event) (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer | ||
| Synonyms | computer error | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | algorithm error, hardware error, programming error, software error | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
| 7. | error (communication) part of a statement that is not correct | ||
| Samples | The book was full of errors. | ||
| Synonyms | mistake | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | misstatement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | corrigendum, erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error | ||
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