error vs smear

error and smear both are nouns.

error is not a verb while smear is a verb.

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

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

error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
smear: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

Other hyponyms of error include blot, 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, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

error (noun)	smear (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed	a blemish made by dirt
inadvertent incorrectness	a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
departure from what is ethically acceptable	slanderous defamation
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

error (verb)	smear (verb)
	charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
	make a smudge on; soil by smudging
	stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
	cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

Difference between error and smear

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