Error
['erə] or ['ɛrɚ]
Definition
(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.) a misconception resulting from incorrect information.
(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.
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Definition
(n.) A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
(n.) A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.
(n.) A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.
(n.) A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
(n.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
(n.) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
(n.) The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error.
(n.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
(n.) A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.
Editor: Sidney
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Mistake, blunder, misapprehension, oversight, inaccuracy.[2]. Sin, fault, offence, trespass, transgression, delinquency, iniquity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fault, mistake, blunder, falsity, deception, fallacy, untruth, hallucination
ANT:Correction, correctness, truth, accuracy, soundness, rectification
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Examples
- Was there error somewhere? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Polemarchus and I may have been guilty of a little mistake in the argument, but I can assure you that the error was not intentional. Plato. The Republic.
- The utilitarian principle is valuable as a corrective of error, and shows to us a side of ethics which is apt to be neglected. Plato. The Republic.
- But Isaac soon convinced him of his error. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I committed one error in trusting myself to such a blindfold calculation of chances as this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What then can we look for from this confusion of groundless and extraordinary opinions but error and falshood? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This moderation towards those who are in error is one of the most characteristic features of Socrates in the Republic. Plato. The Republic.
- Or, assuming it to be false, could the conclusion which associated Sir Percival with her guilt have been founded in some inconceivable error? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In historic practice the error has cut two ways. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But now, let us reason with the unjust, who is not intentionally in error. Plato. The Republic.
- Somewhat allied to this curious faculty is another no less remarkable, and that is, the ability to point out instantly an error in a mass of reported experimental results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the next day Laura knew that his death had released her, and that the error and the calamity of her life lay buried in his tomb. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This, notwithstanding it was a fundamental error, was pardoned, and excited an expression of loud applause from the gallery auditors. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My dear girl was right in saying that he only pursued his errors the more desperately for her sake. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Human nature is very subject to errors of this kind; and perhaps this nation as much as any other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He wrote to Leverrier in reference to the errors of the radius vector and received a satisfactory and sufficiently compliant reply. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That such material will control the pupil's operations so as to prevent errors is true. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Or if it be possible to imagine, that such errors are the sources of all immorality? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- If any copies were handed about, they must have been in manuscript, and each copy must have been liable to errors and deliberate falsification. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This explanation will serve to rectify mistakes which may already have been made, and to prevent future errors. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I understand and share the wise consideration with which you regard his errors. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is a book to which all intelligent readers come sooner or later, abounding as it does in illuminating errors and Boswellian charm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In an unguarded moment, I chanced to say that, of the two errors; I considered falsehood worse than an occasional lapse in church-attendance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Many errors might creep in by such a system. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The ability to detect errors quickly in a series of experiments is one of the things that has enabled Edison to accomplish such a vast amount of work as the records show. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I knew from her own lips that she regarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owing him a great debt she ardently desired to pay. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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