| 单词 | error |
| 释义 | error (once / 113 pages) 1n 2n 3n "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. Simply put, an error is a mistake. However, that mistake is more likely due to a lapse in judgment or skill than to an accident. A plane crash that occurs after the pilot mistakenly presses the "pilot eject" button is said to be caused by "human error." A baseball play in which the pitcher throws the ball to second base instead of first because he was distracted by a pretty girl in the stands is an error — one that might cost his team the game. WORD FAMILYerror: errorless, errors+/err: errant, erred, erring, error, errs, inerrable/errancy: errancies/errant: errancy, errantest, errantly, inerrant/erring: erringly, unerring/inerrable: inerrably/inerrant: inerrancy, inerrantly/unerring: unerringly USAGE EXAMPLESThey tally the number of medication errors, the number of patients injured in falls and the number who develop infections after certain types of surgery. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The EpiPen inquiry also revealed potential errors in how the government classifies drugs. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) But he did assert that some recent published reports about him contained factual errors. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention she was quick to point out my errors Syn|Hypo|Hyper fault, mistake blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain an act that brings discredit to the person who does it confusion, mix-upa mistake that results from taking one thing to be another incursionthe mistake of incurring liability or blame miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoninga mistake in calculating distortionthe mistake of misrepresenting the facts miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-upa minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. offside(sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) lapse, oversighta mistake resulting from inattention omission, skipa mistake resulting from neglect bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfallan embarrassing mistake balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-upsomething badly botched or muddled betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupiditya stupid mistake renege, revokethe mistake of not following suit when able to do so failurean unexpected omission bobblethe momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball backfire, boomeranga miscalculation that recoils on its maker rounding, rounding error(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals truncation error(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished Freudian slipa slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals spectaclea blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bulla serious and ludicrous blunder fumble, muff(sports) dropping the ball fluffa blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecisma socially awkward or tactless act howlera glaring blunder clangera conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate misstep, stumble, trip, trip-upan unintentional but embarrassing blunder nonaccomplishment, nonachievement an act that does not achieve its intended goal 2n a misconception resulting from incorrect information Syn|Hyper erroneous belief misconception an incorrect conception 3n inadvertent incorrectness Syn|Hypo|Hyper erroneousness deviation the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances incorrectness, wrongness the quality of not conforming to fact or truth 4n part of a statement that is not correct the book was full of errors Syn|Hypo|Hyper mistake corrigendum a printer's error; to be corrected erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical errora mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind misstatement a statement that contains a mistake 5n departure from what is ethically acceptable 2Syn|Hyper wrongdoing evil, evilness the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice n (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed 3Syn|Hyper misplay failure an act that fails n (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer Syn|Hypo|Hyper computer error hardware error error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer programming error, software errorerror resulting from bad code in some program involved in producing the erroneous result algorithm errorerror resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result disk errorerror resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk run-time error, runtime error, semantic erroran error in logic or arithmetic that must be detected at run time syntax erroran error of language resulting from code that does not conform to the syntax of the programming language happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent an event that happens |
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