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foul-up vs error

error vs foul-up

foul-up and error both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
foul-up Yes No No No
error Yes No No No
As nouns, error is a hypernym of foul-up; that is, error is a word with a broader meaning than foul-up:
  • foul-up: an embarrassing mistake
  • error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Other hypernyms of foul-up include fault, mistake.
foul-up (noun) error (noun)
an embarrassing mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
(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
Difference between foul-up and error

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