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Meaning error meaning

What does error mean?

Definitions in simple English

error Noun

— An error is something which is accidentally not correct. The bank made an error and gave me too much money. — An error can refer to a computer error. I keep getting errors on my computer program.

error

— noun (= mistake, fault) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention he made a bad mistake she was quick to point out my errors I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults — noun (= erroneousness) inadvertent incorrectness — noun a misconception resulting from incorrect information — noun (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed — noun departure from what is ethically acceptable — noun part of a statement that is not correct the book was full of errors — noun (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

Synonyms error synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as error?

error English » English

mistake fault blunder wrong aberration slip failure flaw sin lapse defect delusion wrongdoing shortcoming misunderstanding inaccuracy oversight imperfection fallacy bungle bug bad omission misplay mismanagement misconception incorrect goof gaffe faux pas erroneous err disgrace discredit confusion blame wrong-doing wrinkle typo transgression stumble offence mistaken misprint misdeed misapprehension make a mistake illusion guilt falsity

Topics error topics

What do people use error to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Mistake

What words refer to a mistake?

mistake error slip mix-up slip-up oversight aberration
What words refer to a mistake in writing or speaking?

mistake misprint spelling mistake slip of the tongue error typographical error typo
What words refer to a serious mistake in judgment or planning?

mistake miscalculation misjudgment error of judgment be a bad move blunder bad tactics muddle confusion mess something up make a mess of something
What words refer to making a mistake?

make a mistake make an error mistake something go wrong get something wrong blunder goof goof up slip up misjudge bungle
What words describe something done by mistake?

by mistake mistaken mistakenly in error erroneously

Language and thought Communication Say

True

What words indicate that something is not true?

untrue false falsehood wrong error inaccurate incorrect mistake

Examples error examples

How do I use error in a sentence?

Simple sentences

At last, she realized her error.

It's annoying not being able to find the error in my calculation.

An error was made.

Everybody laughed at his error.

At last, he realized his error.

It was a manifest error of judgement.

We felt sorry for the error.

You made an error.

We learn by trial and error.

He made an error, as he often does.

He is laboring under a great error.

Finding a solution that worked was a process of trial and error.

The accident was caused by the error on the part of the driver.

This is an error common among Japanese students.

I assure you that an error like this will never happen again.

Through trial and error, he found the right answer by chance.

I hate myself for my own error.

If it had not been for his error, we would have won.

Movie subtitles

It was just, like, a stupid clerical error.

My error.

It would be a grave error to leave behind. the implements for building another canoe, wouldn't it?

A tactical error.

Listen, you huggermuggers, isn't that marriage of yours also another error?

Well, it's a small world, and no error!

And that's no error.

We admit the defendant's error. but you cannot convict a captain for bad seamanship.

Lots of people make the error of grouping Pareto and Spengler together because they both feel that democracy is through, whereas actually Spengler is the philosophical basis for Fascism.

We've been thrown hundreds of times ourselves by the slightest error.

He cannot admit to error, much less to wrongdoing.

It will advance methodically, by trial and error. by asking a thousand questions to get one answer. by brain work and legwork.

Dr. Chumley, I'm afraid there's been a serious error.

We've been praying Dr Bronson is wrong - that these pictures will show some error in his calculations.

He may even allude to the specter of judicial error.

Yes, a slight error.

That may be, but your statement contains a legal error.

There's an error on the registration form of the man they sent down below.

If His Majesty could see her as I see her now, he'd forgive the error.

Well, so long as you admit your error.

Just a typographical error.

I'm sorry old fellow, my error.

Oh, my error.

It's the conclusions drawn from facts that are frequently in error.

Credit me with an error.

I am not blaming you for this error, but your secretary.

Carlos plays a brutal hand. A tactical error.

It doesn't read in that way.. it merely states that perhaps you were in error.

A numbering error?

It wasn't. You may be a brilliant physicist, Dr. Standish. but we do not conduct our work here on a trial and error basis.

One error could be disastrous.

Design error?

Do you know where your fatal error lies?

That's your error.

News and current affairs

Debt crises tend to come out of the blue, hitting countries whose debt trajectories simply have no room for error or unplanned adversity.

For example, for the first time, North Korea's prime minister publicly apologized for a policy error - the failure of the currency redenomination.

Through trial and error - backed by a durable political and economic system - the US prevailed and the Soviet Union disintegrated.

Monetary tightening was not the only major policy error of the 1930's; so was a retreat into protectionism, symbolized by the Smoot-Hawley tariff increases at the beginning of that decade.

Today's statesmen like to say that they have avoided the protectionist error as well, but is that true?

Some might object that these events were not really social epidemics like speculative bubbles, because a totalitarian government ordered them, and the resulting deaths reflect government mismanagement more than investment error.

The problem is not individual error.

One error is to reject a true proposition; the other is to accept a false one.

From scientific research to identification of commercial applications of new technologies, progress has been achieved through trial and error.

More generally, the state's role must shift from executing well-defined programs to supporting trial-and-error experimentation and tolerating entrepreneurial failure.

Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the section of the IPCC report that contained the Himalayan error, admitted that he and his colleagues knew that the dramatic glacier prediction was not based on any peer-reviewed science.

Any such organizational technology, however, is subject to error and requires experimentation.

Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that they can, because even I, a professional economist, have occasionally had to stop myself from making exactly the same error.

The current crisis is severe punishment for that immense intellectual error.

Existing global stockpiles have a destructive capacity equal to 150,000 Hiroshima bombs, and in handling them there is an omnipresent potential for human error, system error, or misjudgment under stress.

The problem is not individual error. The failure was caused by the absence of appropriate international institutions that would be alert to the broad spectrum of potential disasters.

One is that the AWF error won't occur, because there are no reliable ex ante signs of rising potential instability.

Unfortunately, the authorities do not have much margin for error in working to counteract the damage done by the international crisis.

That would be a grave strategic error, based on a fundamental misreading of Asian security dynamics.

With incomplete models of risk dynamics and a complex and constantly changing global financial system, detection is, they argue, either impossible or so prone to error that the effort would be counter-productive.

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