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error
[ er-er ]
noun
- a deviation from accuracy or correctness; a mistake, as in action or speech:
His speech contained several factual errors.
Synonyms: , ,
- belief in something untrue; the holding of mistaken opinions.
- the condition of believing what is not true:
in error about the date.
- a moral offense; wrongdoing; sin.
Synonyms: , , ,
- Baseball. a misplay that enables a base runner to reach base safely or advance a base, or a batter to have a turn at bat prolonged, as the dropping of a ball batted in the air, the fumbling of a batted or thrown ball, or the throwing of a wild ball, but not including a passed ball or wild pitch.
- Mathematics. the difference between the observed or approximately determined value and the true value of a quantity.
- Law.
- a mistake in a matter of fact or law in a case tried in a court of record.
- Philately. a stamp distinguished by an error or errors in design, engraving, selection of inks, or setting up of the printing apparatus. Compare freak 1( def 5 ), variety ( def 7 ).
error
/ ˈɛ°ùÉ™ /
noun
- a mistake or inaccuracy, as in action or speech
a typing error
- an incorrect belief or wrong judgment
- the condition of deviating from accuracy or correctness, as in belief, action, or speech
he was in error about the train times
- deviation from a moral standard; wrongdoing
he saw the error of his ways
- maths statistics a measure of the difference between some quantity and an approximation to or estimate of it, often expressed as a percentage
an error of 5%
- statistics See type I error type II error
Derived Forms
- ËŒ±ð°ù°ù´Ç°ù-ˈ´Ú°ù±ð±ð, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ð°ù۴ǰù·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
- ±ð°ù۴ǰù·±ô±ð²õ²õ·ly adverb
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of error1
Idioms and Phrases
see comedy of errors ; trial and error .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Norris made a couple of mistakes on his first run on the medium tyre, and his opening lap on the soft tyre was ruined by an error at the chicane.
Despite the systems being labelled intelligent, critics argue LLMs do not "think", have no understanding of what they produce and can confidently present errors as fact.
Referee Barrott felt the challenge was reckless in real time and VAR Paul Tierney deemed that call not to be a clear and obvious error.
As Wednesday showed, it’s how they’re winning games, this time triumphing despite three errors and two base-running blunders and one misplayed fly balls.
The judgement here was that there was no clear and obvious error.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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