error
The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
Noun
- The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner?[…]" - 1913, The Inland Printer:
Synonyms: wrength wrong wrongness wrongfulness
- A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- There was a large error in the accounts.
- Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. - 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original...
- "Well over 400 trains and thousands of passengers from across the South were disrupted by this single error of judgement," said Network Rail's Route Director for Sussex, Katie Frost. - 2022 December 14, “Network News:...
- Sin; transgression.
- I've finally seen the error of my ways.
Synonyms: delinquency misdoing wrong crime delict error malfeasance misdeed misdemeanor offense peccadillo sin tort tortfeasance transgression veniality wrongdoing
- A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
Origin
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”, noun), derived from the verb errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition).
Forms
Synonyms
aberration bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo break clanger cock-up error fault faux pas floater flub fluff fuckup gaffe goof howler inaccuracy lapse lapsus mess-up misstep
Hyponyms
absolute error approximation error clerical error compass error conjunctive error cumulative error firm error hard error measurement error observational error round-off error sampling error schoolboy error separative error soft error syntax error transmission error typographical error unforced error incorrect argument barbarism fumble misargument miscalculation
Related
err errant erroneous erroneously does not compute mis- false defect :Category:English terms prefixed with mis- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/27 § error
Derived
alpha error beta error bioerror category error comedy of errors en error bar error box error carried forward error catastrophe error code error correct error correction error diffusion error fare errorfree error-free errorful error function error handler error handling error in judgement error in judgment errorist
Verb
- To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
- The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
- Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
- This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
- To show or contain an error or fault.
- The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
- To err.
- Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases...
- By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity. - 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent...
- Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully - 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford...