error vs balls-up

balls-up vs error

error and balls-up both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
error	Yes	No	No	No
balls-up	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, balls-up is a hyponym of error; that is, balls-up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than error:

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
balls-up: something badly botched or muddled

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	balls-up (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	something badly botched or muddled
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
inadvertent incorrectness
departure from what is ethically acceptable
a misconception resulting from incorrect information
part of a statement that is not correct
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

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