error
English Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- errour (obsolete)
Etymology Edit
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.
Pronunciation Edit
- (UK) enPR: ĕrʹə(r); IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ə(ɹ)/
- (US) enPR: ĕrʹər; IPA(key): /ˈɛɹ.ɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: error
- Homophone: era (in non-rhotic US pronunciations)
- Homophones: air, e'er, ere, heir (in some US pronunciations)
- Homophone: err (in some US pronunciations)
Noun Edit
error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- 1913, The Inland printer:
- "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner? [...]"
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
- 2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge crash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7:
- "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.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
Synonyms Edit
- (state of being wrong): wrength
- (a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
- See also Thesaurus:error
Hyponyms Edit
Derived terms Edit
- alpha error
- beta error
- category error
- error box
- error diffusion
- error-free, errorfree
- error function
- error of the first kind
- error of the second kind
- error-prone
- error-proneness
- error-ridden
- forced error
- ironic error
- logic error
- non-error
- off-by-one error
- Othello error
- probable error
- relative error
- rounding error
- see the error of one's ways
- standard error
- type I error
- type II error
- α error
- β error
Related terms Edit
Translations Edit
mistake
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statistics: difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one
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baseball: play which is scored as having been made incorrectly
appellate law: one or more mistakes in a trial
any alteration in the DNA chemical structure
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Verb Edit
error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)
- (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
- The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
- Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
- This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
- (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
- The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
- (nonstandard) To err.
- 1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC:
- 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.
- 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon:
- By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
- 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing:
- Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
- 2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing:
- Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...
Synonyms Edit
Derived terms Edit
Translations Edit
To show an error
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to cause or contain an error
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(nonstandard) To make a mistake; to result in an error — see err
See also Edit
Asturian Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
error m (plural errores)
Catalan Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
error m (plural errors)
- error
- Synonyms: equivoc, equivocació, incorrecció
Usage notes Edit
Also used as feminine noun, especially in older usage.
Related terms Edit
Further reading Edit
- “error” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “error”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “error” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “error” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
error m (plural errores)
Related terms Edit
Further reading Edit
- “error” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Proto-Italic *erzōs. Equivalent to erro (“I err, I stray”) + -or.
Pronunciation Edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ror/, [ˈɛrːɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈer.ror/, [ˈɛrːor]
Noun Edit
error m (genitive errōris); third declension
- wandering, straying, going astray
- wavering, uncertainty
- error, mistake, fault
- delusion (a departing from the truth), misunderstanding
- 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.789:
- quantum animīs errōris inest!
- Literally:
How much of error is there [is present, exists] in understanding [or judgment]!
Or, interpreted broadly in more natural English:
People make such mistakes! Or: Such misunderstanding!
(In this section of the poem, an enemy is mistakenly admitted into a house at night.)
- Literally:
- quantum animīs errōris inest!
- solecism
Declension Edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | error | errōrēs |
Genitive | errōris | errōrum |
Dative | errōrī | errōribus |
Accusative | errōrem | errōrēs |
Ablative | errōre | errōribus |
Vocative | error | errōrēs |
Descendants Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Verb Edit
error
References Edit
- “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “error”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- error in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- error in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the wanderings of Ulysses: errores Ulixis
- to be mistaken: in errore versari
- to be in gross error, seriously misled: magno errore teneri
- to be in gross error, seriously misled: in magno errore versari
- to fall into error: erroribus implicari (Tusc. 4. 27. 58)
- to take a false step: per errorem labi, or simply labi
- to lead a person into error: aliquem in errorem inducere, rapere
- to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
- to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
- to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem tollere
- to banish an error, do away with a false impression: errorem amputare et circumcīdere
- to totally eradicate false principles: errorem stirpitus extrahere
- to amend, correct one's mistake: errorem deponere, corrigere
- to undeceive a person: alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere
- (ambiguous) erroneous opinion: opinionis error
- (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
- the wanderings of Ulysses: errores Ulixis
Spanish Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
error m (plural errores)
- error
- Synonyms: equivocación, yerro
Derived terms Edit
Related terms Edit
Further reading Edit
- “error”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014