"I'm sorry, sir, there's been some sort of error in the kitchen," is what a restaurant waiter might say to a patron who ordered the fish but was mistakenly served a plateful of worms instead.
A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
Noun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
Noun
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
Noun
inadvertent incorrectness
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
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.
Error
The rest of his journey, his error by sea.2.
H judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired.4.
A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
Usage Examples
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.