English dictionary
error
nounPronunciation
ˈɛɹə(ɹ)
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
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
noun
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
Example sentences
he made a bad mistake
she was quick to point out my errors
I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
the book was full of errors