error vs cockup

cockup vs error

error and cockup both are nouns.

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

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

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

error (noun)	cockup (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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