| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Err.[Websters]
2. To have stumbled, slipped or missed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have sinned or trespassed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have hovered, meandered or roamed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have lapsed or oversighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have tripped, rambled or maundered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have ambled, expatiated, wandered, deflected or divagated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have swerved, departed or splayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have deluded or imposed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have bugged or flawed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb err.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (err) | 1. To make a mistake or be incorrect.[Wordnet]. 2. Wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course".[Wordnet]. 3. To wander; to roam; to stray.[Websters]. 4. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.[Websters]. 5. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.[Websters]. 6. To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.[Websters]. 7. To offend, as by erring.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: erring, erred, errs, errer, errers, erringly and erredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"ERRED" is a common misspelling or typo for: ered. |
Date "ERRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: err
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To wander from the right way; to deviate from the true course or purpose. But errs not nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend?. | 2: [Verb] To miss the right way, in morals or religion; to deviate from the path or line of duty; to stray by design or mistake. We have erred and strayed like lost sheep.. | 3: [Verb] To mistake; to commit error; to do wrong from ignorance or inattention. Men err in judgment from ignorance, from want of attention to facts, or from previous bias of mind.. | 4: [Verb] To wander; to ramble. A storm of strokes, well meant, with fury flies, And errs about their temples,ears, and eyes.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| 19th Century Satire | To make a mistake. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Aerospace | Error. (references) | ||
| Environment | Elk River Reactor (Elk River, Minnesota, boiling-water type). (references) | ||
| Geography | 1: Err is geographically located in France. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 42.433333 degrees North latitude and 2.016667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: Err is geographically located in Yemen. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 15.5 degrees North latitude and 44.183333 degrees East longitude. (references) | |
| Hydraulics | Number of corrections or `patches' in a record. (references) | ||
| Technology | 1: Engineering Release Record. (references) | 2: Engineering Revision Request. (references) | 3: Equivalent Range Rate. (references) |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (intransitive) To make a mistake. He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) To sin. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Specialty Expressions: err
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| ERR CNTR | Aerospace | Error Counter. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Abbreviations & Acronyms: err
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| ERR | English | Economic rate of return | N/A | |
| ERR | Greek | σφάλμα | Post & Telecom | |
| Err.,ERR | English | Error | N/A | |
| Err. | French | Erreur | N/A | |
| Err. | Latin | Erratum | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: err | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| To Err is Human | 4 | Err | 2 | |
| Err | 2 | Lydie Err | 2 | |
| Lydie Err | 2 | To Err is Human | 4 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
