Blunder vs. Error — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Blunder and Error
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Blunder
A stupid or careless mistake
She stopped, finally aware of the terrible blunder she had made
Error
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.
Blunder
Make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily
He knew he'd blundered
Error
An error (from the Latin error, meaning "wandering") is an action which is inaccurate or incorrect. In some usages, an error is synonymous with a mistake.
Blunder
A mistake typically caused by ignorance or carelessness.
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Error
A mistake
An error of judgement
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Blunder
To make a mistake.
Error
An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
Blunder
To move clumsily or haltingly.
Error
The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
Blunder
To make a mistake in; botch
Would-be thieves blundering a break-in.
Error
The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.
Blunder
To utter (something) stupidly or thoughtlessly.
Error
A mistake.
Blunder
A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
Error
(Mathematics) The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.
Blunder
(chess) A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
Error
Abbr. E(Baseball) A defensive fielding or throwing misplay by a player when a play normally should have resulted in an out or prevented an advance by a base runner.
Blunder
(intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
To blunder in preparing a medical prescription
Error
(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
Blunder
(intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
Error
(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
Blunder
(transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
Error
Sin; transgression.
Blunder
(transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
Error
A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
Blunder
To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
Error
The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
Blunder
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.
Error
A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
Blunder
To cause to blunder.
Error
One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
Blunder
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
He blunders and confounds all these together.
Error
Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
Blunder
Confusion; disturbance.
Error
(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.
Blunder
A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
Error
(telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
Blunder
An embarrassing mistake
Error
(nonstandard) To err.
Blunder
Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake;
I blundered during the job interview
Error
A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
The rest of his journey, his error by sea.
Blunder
Make one's way clumsily or blindly;
He fumbled towards the door
Error
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.
Blunder
Utter impulsively;
He blurted out the secret
He blundered his stupid ideas
Error
A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.
Error
The difference between the approximate result and the true result; - used particularly in the rule of double position.
Error
The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.
Error
A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.
Error
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
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
Error
Inadvertent incorrectness
Error
A misconception resulting from incorrect information
Error
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
Error
Departure from what is ethically acceptable
Error
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
Error
Part of a statement that is not correct;
The book was full of errors
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