error vs ballup

ballup vs error

error and ballup both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
error	Yes	No	No	No
ballup	Yes	No	No	No

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
ballup: 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, balls-up, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	ballup (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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