Blunder vs. Error

Blundernoun

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

Errornoun

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.

Blunderverb

(intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

‘to blunder in preparing a medical prescription’;

Errornoun

(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.

Blunderverb

(intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.

Errornoun

Sin; transgression.

Blunderverb

(transitive) To cause to make a mistake.

Errornoun

A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.

Blunderverb

(transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

Errornoun

The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.

Blunderverb

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

Errornoun

A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.

Blunderverb

To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.

‘I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.’; ‘Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place,And blunders on, and staggers every pace.’;

Errornoun

One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.

Blunderverb

To cause to blunder.

Errornoun

Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.

Blunderverb

To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

‘He blunders and confounds all these together.’;

Errorverb

(computing) 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.’; ‘This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.’;

Blundernoun

Confusion; disturbance.

Errorverb

(telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.

‘The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.’;

Blundernoun

A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

Errorverb

(nonstandard) To err.

Blundernoun

an embarrassing mistake

Errornoun

A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

‘The rest of his journey, his error by sea.’;

Blunderverb

commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake;

‘I blundered during the job interview’;

Errornoun

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.

Blunderverb

make one's way clumsily or blindly;

‘He fumbled towards the door’;

Errornoun

A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.

‘His judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired.’;

Blunderverb

utter impulsively;

‘He blurted out the secret’; ‘He blundered his stupid ideas’;

Errornoun

A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.

Blundernoun

a stupid or careless mistake

‘she stopped, finally aware of the terrible blunder she had made’;

Errornoun

The difference between the approximate result and the true result; - used particularly in the rule of double position.

Blunderverb

make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily

‘he knew he'd blundered’;

Errornoun

The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.

Blunderverb

move clumsily or as if unable to see

‘we were blundering around in the darkness’;

Errornoun

A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

Errornoun

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.

Errornoun

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’;

Errornoun

inadvertent incorrectness

Errornoun

a misconception resulting from incorrect information

Errornoun

(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

Errornoun

departure from what is ethically acceptable

Errornoun

(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

Errornoun

part of a statement that is not correct;

‘the book was full of errors’;

Errornoun

a mistake

‘an error of judgement’; ‘spelling errors’;

Errornoun

the state or condition of being wrong in conduct or judgement

‘the crash was caused by human error’; ‘goods dispatched to your branch in error’;

Errornoun

a measure of the estimated difference between the observed or calculated value of a quantity and its true value.

Errornoun

a mistake in matter of law appearing in the proceedings of a court of record

‘the decisions of the appeal committee disclosed no error of law’;

Error

An error (from the Latin error, meaning ) is an action which is inaccurate or incorrect. In some usages, an error is synonymous with a mistake.

‘wandering’;