error
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
he made a bad mistake
Types & categories
- nonaccomplishment hypernym
- blot hyponym
- mix-up hyponym
- incursion hyponym
- miscalculation hyponym
- distortion hyponym
- slip-up hyponym
- offside hyponym
- lapse hyponym
- omission hyponym
- blunder hyponym
- ballup hyponym
- betise hyponym
- revoke hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
inadvertent incorrectness
Types & categories
- incorrectness hypernym
- deviation hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a misconception resulting from incorrect information
Types & categories
- misconception hypernym
Sense 4 noun
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
Types & categories
- failure hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
departure from what is ethically acceptable
Types & categories
- evilness hypernym
Sense 6 noun
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
Types & categories
- happening hypernym
- hardware error hyponym
- software error hyponym
- algorithm error hyponym
Related & opposite
- computing domain topic
Sense 7 noun
part of a statement that is not correct
the book was full of errors
Types & categories
- misstatement hypernym
- corrigendum hyponym
- misprint hyponym
Related & opposite
- err derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | err |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fault |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | faulty |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | nonaccomplishment |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | blot |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mix-up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | incursion |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | miscalculation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | distortion |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slip-up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | offside |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lapse |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | omission |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | blunder |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ballup |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | betise |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | revoke |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | err |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | erroneous |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | incorrectness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | deviation |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | misconception |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | misplay |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | baseball |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | failure |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | evilness |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | computing |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | happening |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | hardware error |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | software error |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | algorithm error |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | err |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | misstatement |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | corrigendum |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | misprint |