failure an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes"
baseball game,
baseball a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"
error -
departure from what is ethically acceptable
error -
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"
blot,
smirch,
smear,
stain,
spot an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
mix-up,
confusion a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"
incursion the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers); "the incursion of television into the American living room"
The word error has different meanings and usages relative to how it is conceptually applied. The concrete meaning of the Latin word error is "wandering" or "straying". To the contrary of an illusion, an error or a mistake can sometimes be dispelled through knowledge (knowing that one is looking at a mirage and not at real water doesn't make the mirage disappear).
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error A mistake, an oversight, a slight; usually apologetic, referring to one's own failures.
