error
English Thesaurus
1. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention (noun.act)
hyponym | : | confusion, mix-up, |
definition | : | a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | incursion, |
definition | : | the mistake of incurring liability or blame (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | distortion, |
definition | : | the mistake of misrepresenting the facts (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up, |
definition | : | a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | offside, |
definition | : | (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | lapse, oversight, |
definition | : | a mistake resulting from inattention (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | omission, skip, |
definition | : | a mistake resulting from neglect (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, |
definition | : | an embarrassing mistake (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | renege, revoke, |
definition | : | the mistake of not following suit when able to do so (noun.act) |
2. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed (noun.act)
hypernym | : | failure, |
definition | : | an act that fails (noun.act) |
domain category | : | baseball, baseball game, |
definition | : | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs (noun.act) |
3. inadvertent incorrectness (noun.attribute)
hyponym | : | deviation, |
definition | : | the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances (noun.attribute) |
4. departure from what is ethically acceptable (noun.attribute)
hypernym | : | evil, evilness, |
definition | : | the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice (noun.attribute) |
5. a misconception resulting from incorrect information (noun.cognition)
hypernym | : | misconception, |
definition | : | an incorrect conception (noun.cognition) |
6. part of a statement that is not correct (noun.communication)
hypernym | : | misstatement, |
definition | : | a statement that contains a mistake (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | corrigendum, |
definition | : | a printer's error; to be corrected (noun.communication) |
7. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer (noun.event)
hyponym | : | hardware error, |
definition | : | error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer (noun.event) |
hyponym | : | programming error, software error, |
definition | : | error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result (noun.event) |
hyponym | : | algorithm error, |
definition | : | error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result (noun.event) |
domain category | : | computer science, computing, |
definition | : | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures (noun.cognition) |
8. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention (noun.act)
derivation | : | err, mistake, slip, |
definition | : | to make a mistake or be incorrect (verb.cognition) |
derivation | : | blame, fault, |
definition | : | put or pin the blame on (verb.communication) |
derivation | : | faulty, incorrect, wrong, |
definition | : | characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules (adj.all) |
9. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed (noun.act)
derivation | : | misplay, |
definition | : | play wrong or in an unskillful manner (verb.competition) |
10. inadvertent incorrectness (noun.attribute)
derivation | : | err, mistake, slip, |
definition | : | to make a mistake or be incorrect (verb.cognition) |
derivation | : | erroneous, |
definition | : | containing or characterized by error (adj.all) |
11. part of a statement that is not correct (noun.communication)
derivation | : | err, mistake, slip, |
definition | : | to make a mistake or be incorrect (verb.cognition) |
12. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention (noun.act)
derivation | : | err, mistake, slip, |
definition | : | to make a mistake or be incorrect (verb.cognition) |
derivation | : | blame, fault, |
definition | : | put or pin the blame on (verb.communication) |
derivation | : | faulty, incorrect, wrong, |
definition | : | characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules (adj.all) |
13. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed (noun.act)
derivation | : | misplay, |
definition | : | play wrong or in an unskillful manner (verb.competition) |
14. inadvertent incorrectness (noun.attribute)
derivation | : | err, mistake, slip, |
definition | : | to make a mistake or be incorrect (verb.cognition) |
derivation | : | erroneous, |
definition | : | containing or characterized by error (adj.all) |
15. part of a statement that is not correct (noun.communication)
derivation | : | err, mistake, slip, |
definition | : | to make a mistake or be incorrect (verb.cognition) |
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