error — English Dictionary

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Pronunciations (6)

Noun

The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
Usage
- Uncountable
Synonyms
wrength wrong wrongness wrongfulness

Examples

"Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner?[…]"
A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
Usage
- Countable
Synonyms
blunder flub gaffe stumble

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.

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"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.
Sin; transgression.
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
Synonyms
delinquency misdoing wrong

Examples

I've finally seen the error of my ways.
A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
Usage
- Countable
The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
Usage
- Countable
A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
Usage
- Countable
One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
Usage
- Uncountable
Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable

To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.

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.

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This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
To show or contain an error or fault.

Examples

The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
To err.
Usage
- nonstandard
Examples

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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

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Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...

Word forms

errorserrourerrorserroringerrorederrored