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error
A	noun
	1	mistake, error, fault
			a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚nonaccomplishment; nonachievement ╚mistake, error, fault ╚ballup; balls-up; cockup; mess-up ╚blunder; blooper; bloomer; bungle; foul-up; fuckup; flub; botch; boner; boo-boo ╚omission; skip ╚oversight; lapse ╚slip; slip-up; miscue; parapraxis ╚distortion ╚miscalculation; misreckoning; misestimation ╚incursion ╚confusion; mix-up ╚blot; smear; smirch; spot; stain
	2	error, misplay
			(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚nonaccomplishment; nonachievement ╚failure ╚error, misplay
	3	erroneousness, error
			inadvertent incorrectness
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚quality ╚incorrectness; wrongness ╚erroneousness, error ╚deviation
	4	error, wrongdoing
			departure from what is ethically acceptable
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚quality ╚immorality ╚evil; evilness ╚error, wrongdoing
	5	error, erroneous belief
			a misconception resulting from incorrect information
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚idea; thought ╚misconception ╚error, erroneous belief
	6	error, mistake
			part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚statement ╚misstatement ╚error, mistake ╚misprint; erratum; typographical error; typo; literal error; literal ╚corrigendum
	7	error, computer error
			(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚error, computer error ╚algorithm error ╚software error; programming error ╚hardware error

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It would have been an error that the following day I would accuse him.
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That's human error
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