Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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stain | Yes | No | Yes | No |
error | Yes | No | No | No |
stain (noun) | error (noun) |
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an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
a soiled or discolored appearance | (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed |
a symbol of disgrace or infamy | inadvertent incorrectness |
anything regarded as making something unclean | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible | 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 |
stain (verb) | error (verb) |
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produce or leave stains | |
color with a liquid dye or tint | |
color for microscopic study | |
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically |