error vs miscue

miscue vs error

error and miscue both are nouns.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
miscue: a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, 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, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	miscue (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
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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