error

1. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention (synset 100071785)
   "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
   is a type of: nonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goal
   subtypes:

   • blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
   • confusion, mix-up - a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
   • incursion - the mistake of incurring liability or blame
   • miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning - a mistake in calculating
   • distortion - the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
   • miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
   • offside - (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
   • lapse, oversight - a mistake resulting from inattention
   • omission, skip - a mistake resulting from neglect
   • bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall - an embarrassing mistake
   • balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled
   • betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity - a stupid mistake
   • renege, revoke - the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
   same as: fault, mistake
2. Inadvertent incorrectness (synset 104809878)
   is a type of: incorrectness, wrongness - the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
   subtypes: deviation - the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances
   same as: erroneousness
3. A misconception resulting from incorrect information (synset 105904072)
   is a type of: misconception - an incorrect conception
   same as: erroneous belief
4. (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed (synset 100072888)
   referred to in: ball, baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
   is a type of: failure - an act that fails
   same as: misplay
5. Departure from what is ethically acceptable (synset 104860996)
   is a type of: evil, evilness - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
   same as: wrongdoing
6. (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer (synset 107314187)
   referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
   is a type of: happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
   subtypes:

   • hardware error - error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer
   • programming error, software error - error resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result
   • algorithm error - error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result
   same as: computer error
7. Part of a statement that is not correct (synset 106782183)
   "the book was full of errors"
   is a type of: misstatement - a statement that contains a mistake
   subtypes:

   • corrigendum - a printer's error; to be corrected
   • erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error - a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
   same as: mistake

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