error
Syllables: err·orUK/ˈɛɹə//ˈɛɹəɹ/
error noun: the state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
Noun
error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)
- The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- "Am I in error in marking out the s in the word assistants used in the following manner?[…]"1913, The Inland Printer
- Synonyms:
- wrength, wrong, wrongness, wrongfulness
- A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- There was a large error in the accounts.
- Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2011
- Sin; transgression.
- I've finally seen the error of my ways.
- Synonyms:
- delinquency, misdoing, wrong, crime, delict, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, peccadillo
- A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- 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.
- An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
Verb
error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)
- 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.
- To show or contain an error or fault.
- The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
- To err.
- 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...1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC
- By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon
error meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
error in Hindi
- mistake — see also mistake
- त्रुटि truṭi, ग़लती ġaltī, भूल bhūl
error in Tamil
- mistake — see also mistake
- தப்பு tappu, தவறு tavaṟu, பிழை piḻai
error in Marathi
- mistake — see also mistake
- चूक cūk
- computing: failure to complete task
- त्रुटी truṭī
error in Urdu
- mistake — see also mistake
- غَلَطی ġalatī, خَطا xatā, بُھول bhūl
More languagesFewer languages
- error in Bengali
- ভুল bhul
- error in Telugu
- తప్పు tappu, దోషము dōṣamu, పొర pora, వికల్పము vikalpamu
- error in Malayalam
- പിശക് piśakŭ, തെറ്റ് teṟṟŭ
- error in Kannada
- ತಪ್ಪು, ಅಪರಾಧ, ದೋಷ, ಸ್ಖಾಲಿತ್ಯ
- error in Punjabi
- غلطی ġalat̤ī, ਉਕਾਈ ukāī
- error in Gujarati
- ભૂલ
- error in Assamese
- ভুল bhul
- error in Nepali
- गल्ती galtī
- error in Tagalog
- mali, kamalian
- error in Arabic
- خَطَأ ḵaṭaʔ, غَلْطَة ḡalṭa, غَلَط ḡalaṭ
- error in Malay
- ralat, kesalahan
- error in Indonesian
- kesalahan
- error in Thai
- ข้อผิดพลาด kɔ̂ɔ-pìt-plâat, ความผิดพลาด kwaam-pìt-plâat, ค่าผิดพลาด
- error in Vietnamese
- lỗi, sai số
- error in Myanmar
- အမှား a.hma:
- Dhivehi
- ކުށް kuṣ̊
Examples of error in a sentence
- This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
- "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.2022 December 14, “Network News: HGV driver banned after Coulsdon bridge crash”, in RAIL, number 972, page 7:
- The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC:
- Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity....2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing:
- Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing:
Synonyms of error
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Forms of error
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | errors |
| alternative form (obsolete) | errour |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | errors |
| present participle | erroring |
| past participle | errored |
| past | errored |
Origin of error
From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”, noun), derived from the verb errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition). Displaced native Old English dwild (“error”).
Words formed from error
- alpha error
- beta error
- bioerror
- category error
- comedy of errors
- erotic target location error
- error bar
- error box
- error carried forward
- error catastrophe
- error code
- error correct
- error correction
- error diffusion
- error fare
- errorfree
- error-free
- errorful
- error function
- error handler
- error handling
- error in judgement
- error in judgment
- errorist
- errorless
- error message
- error of judgement
- error of judgment
- error of the first kind
- error of the second kind
- errorous
- error-prone
- error-proneness
- errorproof
- error-ridden
- errorsome
- error theory
- error treatment
- fencepost error
- forced error
- human error
- in error
- ironic error
- logic error
- margin of error
- non-error
- off-by-one error
- Othello error
- plaintiff in error
- probable error
- refractive error
- relative error
- rounding error
- the error of one's ways
- standard error
- stop error
- suberror
- trial and error
- type I error
- type II error
Phrases with error
- α error
- β error
- error out
- error bars
- firm error
- hard error
- soft error
- error boxes
- error fares
- syntax error
- compass error
- absolute error
27 more phrasesFewer phrases
- clerical error
- error corrects
- error messages
- error theories
- sampling error
- unforced error
- error corrected
- error functions
- round-off error
- schoolboy error
- cumulative error
- error correcting
- margins of error
- separative error
- conjunctive error
- measurement error
- error catastrophes
- transmission error
- approximation error
- observational error
- plaintiffs in error
- typographical error
- saw the error of one's ways
- see the error of one's ways
- seen the error of one's ways
- sees the error of one's ways
- seeing the error of one's ways
Words that rhyme with error
Questions about error
- What does error mean?
- Error means the state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- What is error in Hindi?
- Error in Hindi is त्रुटि (truṭi), ग़लती (ġaltī), भूल (bhūl). See Error meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use error in a sentence?
- This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
- What part of speech is error?
- Error can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce error?
- Error is pronounced /ˈɛɹə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of error?
- The plural of error is errors.
Words near error in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: error (page history and authors); తప్పు (Telugu) (page history and authors); error (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); غلطی (Punjabi) (page history and authors); error (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ভুল (Assamese) (page history and authors); गल्ती (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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