error
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: 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).
Inflected forms:
form: errors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: errour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: errors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: erroring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: errored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: errored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: errour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner?[…]"
gloss: A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
"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.
gloss: Sin; transgression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I've finally seen the error of my ways.
gloss: A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To show or contain an error or fault.
pos: verb
examples: The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
gloss: To err.
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
examples: 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 and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.
By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...
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
mistake
oopsy
screwup
slip
slip-up
slipup
stumble
thinko
wrength
solecism
erroneity
err
Related words: err
errant
erroneous
erroneously
mis-
false
defect
:Category:English terms prefixed with mis-
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error
Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/27 § error
unerring
Derived words: 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
errorless
error message
error of judgement
error of judgment
error of the first kind
error of the second kind
errorous
error-prone
error-proneness
errorproof
error-ridden
errorsome
error treatment
fatal system error
fencepost error
forced error
human error
in error
ironic error
logic error
margin of error
non-error
off-by-one error
Othello error
plaintiff in error
probable error
refractive error
relative error
rounding error
the error of one's ways
standard error
stop error
suberror
trial and error
type I error
type II error
α error
β error
error out
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