Defect vs. Error

Defectnoun

A fault or malfunction.

‘a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment’;

Errornoun

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

Defectnoun

The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.

Errornoun

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

Defectnoun

(math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

Errornoun

Sin; transgression.

Defectverb

(intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

Errornoun

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

Defectverb

(military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.

Errornoun

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

Defectverb

(military) To join the enemy army.

Errornoun

A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.

Defectverb

(law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

Errornoun

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

Defectnoun

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; - opposed to superfluity.

‘Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.’;

Errornoun

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

Defectnoun

Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.

‘Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know,Make use of every friend - and every foe.’; ‘Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.’;

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.’;

Defectverb

To fail; to become deficient.

Errorverb

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

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

Defectverb

to abandon one country or faction, and join another.

Errorverb

(nonstandard) To err.

Defectverb

To injure; to damage.

Errornoun

A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

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

Defectnoun

an imperfection in a bodily system;

‘visual defects’; ‘this device permits detection of defects in the lungs’;

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.

Defectnoun

a failing or deficiency;

‘that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information’;

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.’;

Defectnoun

an imperfection in a device or machine;

‘if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer’;

Errornoun

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

Defectnoun

a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body);

‘a facial blemish’;

Errornoun

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

Defectverb

desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army;

‘If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot’;

Errornoun

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

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’;