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miscue vs error

error vs miscue

miscue and error both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
miscue Yes No No No
error Yes No No No
As nouns, error is a hypernym of miscue; that is, error is a word with a broader meaning than miscue:
  • miscue: a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
  • error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Other hypernyms of miscue include fault, mistake.
miscue (noun) error (noun)
a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. (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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