Error vs. Exception — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Error and Exception
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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.
Exception
A person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule
The administrator made an exception in the Colonel's case and waived the normal visiting hours
He always plays top tunes, and tonight was no exception
Error
A mistake
An error of judgement
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Exception
The act of excepting or the condition of being excepted; exclusion.
Error
An act, assertion, or belief that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true.
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Exception
One that is excepted, especially a case that does not conform to a rule or generalization.
Error
The condition of having incorrect or false knowledge.
Exception
An objection or a criticism
Opinions that are open to exception.
Error
The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behavior.
Exception
(Law) A formal protest against a ruling of the trial court on a question of law, such as the admissibility of a certain piece of evidence, to make clear for the record that the issue is being preserved for a potential appeal.
Error
A mistake.
Exception
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
The exception of a rule
Error
(Mathematics) The difference between a computed or measured value and a true or theoretically correct value.
Exception
That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.
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.
Exception
(legal) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
Error
(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
Exception
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
Error
(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
Exception
(computing) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
Error
Sin; transgression.
Exception
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
Error
A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
Exception
That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark,Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.
That proud exception to all nature's laws.
Error
The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
Exception
An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
Error
A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
Exception
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; - usually followed by to or against.
I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation].
He . . . took exception to the place of their burial.
She takes exceptions at your person.
Error
One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
Exception
A deliberate act of omission;
With the exception of the children, everyone was told the news
Error
Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
Exception
An instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization;
All her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child
An exception tests the rule
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.
Exception
Grounds for adverse criticism;
His authority is beyond exception
Error
(telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
Error
(nonstandard) To err.
Error
A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
The rest of his journey, his error by sea.
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.
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.
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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