noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer error
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The mistake was caused by a computer error.
a fundamental mistake/error
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The government made at least one fundamental mistake when drawing up this legislation.
catalogue of errors
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an appalling catalogue of errors
compass error
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Their ship had sailed off course due to compass errors.
factual errors
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The report contained a number of factual errors .
fatal mistake/error
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Telling your employees they’re unimportant is a fatal error.
human error
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Investigators concluded that the crash was caused by human error.
pilot error (= a mistake by the pilot )
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The official report into the accident says that it was caused by pilot error .
tactical error/mistake/blunder (= a mistake that will harm your plans later )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
factual
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Injury to official reputation affords no more warrant for repressing speech that would otherwise be free than does factual error .
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There are some typographical and factual errors but these are minor blemishes.
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The review is filled with inconsistencies and factual errors .
fatal
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It had made the fatal error of overkill.
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This determination then leads him into his fatal error .
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It is a fatal error to assume that lowering the price makes an indifferent product saleable to a general market.
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Surely everyone knows the fatal errors of all those isms.
fundamental
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The story of Britain's fighter development was more complex and was slowed by one fundamental error of scientific judgment.
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Tax studies purporting to show that most capital gains tax is paid by higher-income individuals reflect a fundamental error .
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He made the most fundamental error possible in tournament golf, signing a card containing a wrong score.
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Those changes relate to fundamental errors and adjustments resulting from changes in accounting policies.
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The critics are making a fundamental error in labelling this the start of a two-tier system.
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Increasing tare without restricting routes a fundamental error .
grave
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However, by two grave tactical errors , they frittered away this supremacy without ever realising its value.
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It would be a grave error to oversimplify any of these outcomes.
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What sins, what meannesses, what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me.
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He had committed a grave error in lending his approval, together with that of the Church he represented, to the Exhibition.
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She had made - and with far less justification than her father - the same grave error as he.
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He explained that we had made a grave error - it was Saturday afternoon.
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But as we left the tarmac road and headed up the hill I made a grave error .
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Here indeed, I thought, must lie some of those sins, meannesses and grave errors .
human
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Once properly programmed, human error is almost entirely eradicated.
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Given the climate, these places are vulnerable, and far too easily affected by the least human error or natural misfortune.
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Some of the human errors can be reduced, especially in calculations. 3.
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He told the story of what had occurred as if it were a natural phenomenon, not mechanical failing or human error .
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Mis-matches between job requirements and people's capabilities provide for human error .
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The crashes have been attributed to a variety of problems, from human error to software glitches to mechanical failure.
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Automatic defrost is most desirable since it eliminates human error and is energy efficient.
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At the same time, computers helped sustained the trading frenzy prompted by human error .
internal
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An unexpected internal error has occurred while processing your Client Details transaction.
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Data structure containing package and ancestors is empty An unexpected internal error has occurred while processing your request.
pilot
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Naval investigators have concluded that two of the crashes were caused by pilot error .
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If you skewered a Huey on a sharp stump during an assault, it was pilot error .
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Investigators blame the Feb. 22 crash of an F-14 into the Persian Gulf on pilot error .
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Initial press reports on the Dec. 20 accident focused on how pilot errors got the crew into a navigational jam.
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The usual verdict was pilot error .
possible
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It is possible for an error to result in an improvement.
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The cost of possible error should be considered.
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The principles of measurement and possible sources of error of this technique have been described in detail.
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The system can only attempt to deal with possible errors of recognition or spelling.
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These five points do not cover all possible errors , but most spelling mistakes fall into one or more of these groups.
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It is possible that such errors however, are merely indicative of the same craftsman's readjustments.
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In view of these possible sources of error it is surprising that extrapolated profiles ever yield results of any value.
random
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This section then describes some validation parameters including accuracy and precision, random errors , calibration curves and noise.
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This involved initial tests of short and longer term random error and spiking recovery.
serious
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But they had all made a serious error , himself included.
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To me this is a serious error , the source of all our troubles.
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The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
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A serious error could easily result in every semi-conductor in the project being destroyed, possibly in spectacular fashion.
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This on its own is not a serious error .
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He had suddenly made a serious error .
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Night Effect causes serious bearing errors and interference between stations. 3.
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His memory may have been tarnished over the previous decade with the acknowledgement of his serious policy errors .
small
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Particularly small errors and omissions on my part.
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Market tolerance does not always require total visual perfection and graciously allows for a small range of error .
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External load torques, perhaps caused by friction, give rise to a small error in position when the motor is stationary.
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Panic seized him and he felt he was about to lose everything by a small error of judgment.
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But a small error in the procedure could easily leave her inoperable, or at least changed beyond recognition.
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Ray designed a system called Tierra that consisted of competing programs that were constantly being filled by mutation with small errors .
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However, there was one small but significant error .
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There may be a very small possibility for error in the practice of selecting information from the files for transmission to clients.
standard
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There are also facilities to display the data's standard errors and select polynomial and rational functions.
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Thaler and Rosen reported several estimates with confidence limits around each, based on their standard errors .
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The reason for their very big standard errors become clearer from the specification of the leisure effects.
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Data are expressed as mean percentage of T cells binding from three replicate wells; lines represent standard errors .
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The bar lines denote standard errors .
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This gives a total of 16 out of 36 which could be solved using standard error correction algorithms.
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Additionally, the standard errors of the estimated coefficients are larger in Models 2 and 3 than in Model 1.
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Three pieces of daub were dated and provided an average age and standard error of 830 plus/minus 40 years.
tactical
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First, he made the tactical error of blaming the civil war on the ethnic groups in the north of the country.
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Could this have been a major tactical error on my part?
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However, by two grave tactical errors , they frittered away this supremacy without ever realising its value.
■ NOUN
code
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No such variable - error code 26.
computer
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He has blamed the losses on computer errors .
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A computer error moved a decimal place one unit to the right.
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It would only take a computer error or a mutiny by some of those manning the weapons to trigger a global war.
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A computer error knocked out the system for the second time in a month.
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Isn't it possible that there's been an error - a computer error, perhaps?
correction
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Dictionary look-up methods give impressive error correction but require much greater storage and computation.
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The protocol incorporates yet another type of error correction and aspects of handling files.
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A licence agreement may specifically prohibit error correction so that all this provision does is to raise a presumption in favour of the lawful user.
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This is another interesting theoretical point, but probably of little consequence as far as error correction is concerned.
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This gives a total of 16 out of 36 which could be solved using standard error correction algorithms.
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The dictionary method gives much greater error correction performance, with greater storage requirements and computational cost.
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It doesn't have error correction or data compression and for £249, I'd expect these features to be standard.
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Such errors were studied, along with traditional error correction techniques.
message
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CorelDRAW can still bring up those strange Waldo error messages when you're using the Blend option.
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Write down any error messages you see, no matter how cryptic.
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Because a single stack is used, the following error messages do not exist.
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In Windows 95, you can copy details from most error messages and paste them into the Windows Notepad or Wordpad.
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Each of these are listed on a separate line after the error message .
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We got an error message , indicating there was no dial tone.
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It doesn't come up with irrational error messages and it's nice and simple to use.
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If the information entered into any field is invalid, an error message will be displayed at the foot of the page.
rate
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The quality of many of these censuses is low, and error rates of 20 percent are not unusual.
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An Advertising Research Foundation study of 7, 000 survey interviews in 1975 discovered a 37 percent error rate .
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One is learning: the error rate decreases with practice: each line illustrates a decrease in the error rate since starting.
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Six months later, when we published error rates for each supervisor, it fell to 8 percent.
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One is learning: the error rate decreases with practice: each line illustrates a decrease in the error rate since starting.
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The error rates were about the same with both versions, too.
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That would make the error rate enormous, and the time involved prohibitive.
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The lexical look-up technique is preferable to statistical methods since it does not have a built-in error rate and guarantees lexical output.
■ VERB
cause
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As has already been indicated, delay can be caused by professional errors .
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Naval investigators have concluded that two of the crashes were caused by pilot error .
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He said in his opinion the accident was caused through driver error .
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Over time, in a certain percentage of cells, that mutation caused further errors .
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Often one simple fault, for example an incorrect protection on a storage account, can cause many errors to be reported.
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If the patient is already speaking, the electricity merely causes errors .
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Night Effect causes serious bearing errors and interference between stations. 3.
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The official report into the accident which killed David Kay and his wife Margaret says it was caused by pilot error .
commit
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He had committed a grave error in lending his approval, together with that of the Church he represented, to the Exhibition.
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He watched Offerman commit 139 errors , including a major-league high 35 last season in 115 games.
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On this point it seems that the Literary Digest Poll and others committed two errors .
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He also committed 27 errors -- second in the league -- but many were due to inexperience.
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He also commits the cardinal error of underestimating his audience.
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Gagne has committed 40 errors over the last three seasons.
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Between them the two women served 27 double-faults and committed 124 unforced errors .
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And he committed just 15 errors .
contain
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Some sources, especially primary ones, may contain statements made in error .
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Of these, approximately 5 % contained errors and were rejected by the system.
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Thus no syntactically correct program in our restricted version occam can contain an execution error .
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In a vision given to one of his followers, the Heavenly Father stated that the Bible contained errors .
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Consequently, age data contain a considerable error component that differs among surveys.
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Improved computer-editing proceedings have been developed and implemented in the surveillance system which identify measurements that may contain errors .
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The full-page adverts contain an extremely embarrassing error .
correct
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The machinist on the shop floor could detect but not correct the error .
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He also found that in many instances children were able to correct their own errors when their attention was drawn to them.
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That is, rather than correcting their errors , I model the strategies readers use when they encounter these problems.
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The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
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WordPerfect allows you to correct this type of error quickly and easily.
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If not detected and corrected this error would have priced the said products out of the market.
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Congress now has a chance to correct its grievous error .
display
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Scrolled areas alternatively contain error columns which are used to display input errors.
find
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Their price of £4,000 to anyone who could find a typographical error in their works remains unclaimed to this day.
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Blaine says he was let go because he had found Vial in error on anatomical matters.
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The court is not allowed to peer inside at the meanings assigned to those elements, except to find a non-jurisdictional error .
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I can find no errors of shape, proportion or poise - full marks for accuracy.
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On finding that a printing error had left four blank pages in the 44 page booklet, I wrote to Hyperion.
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I could find only one minor error , which reflects the quality of this book.
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Belief in one's hypothesis has been found to lead to errors in observing and in recording the results of experiments.
make
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The student should make notes of his errors and work on them.
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About 80 percent of normal subjects make this error .
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But they had all made a serious error , himself included.
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More important, no changes are made in the system to eliminate the possibility of another pilot making the same error .
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Even if firms were completely market orientated, they would still make errors of judgement from time to time.
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The Padres made three errors in the sixth, helping the struggling Rockies to four runs and a 4-1 lead.
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It was a risk, and she'd already made one monumental error of character judgement.
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The recall made them pay for that mistake and sent out a terrible message about making an error in local politics.
occur
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When two planes come closer than that, an error has occurred .
process
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An unexpected internal error has occurred while processing your Client Details transaction.
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Data structure containing package and ancestors is empty An unexpected internal error has occurred while processing your request.
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Mail transaction has failed An unexpected error has occurred while processing your mail transaction.
reduce
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The level of checking can be tuned to reduce the number of errors detected.
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This contribution cleans up echoes on telephone lines and reduces transmission errors on modems.
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This saves hours of time and greatly reduces errors caused by inaccurate key pressing.
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We feel it is worth noting how this particular problem was solved, using techniques to reduce the error after convergence.
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The coaches want to call every play and reduce their margin for error .
report
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The following messages report errors and should not occur.
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First Aid reported this as an error , saying I was missing crucial files needed to make the program run.
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The scanner checks this and reports any errors .
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The subjects were required to understand the sentences and report any errors they noticed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
by/through trial and error
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They learned to farm the land through trial and error.
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Each individual achieves his own style by trial and error.
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He learned everything just by trial and error.
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I did the tutorial that came with the package deal and learned a lot through trial and error.
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In any case, they were confident these minor bugs could be worked out through trial and error.
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It pointed out that: Everything seems to be done by trial and error.
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Science progresses by trial and error.
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Some had to learn by trial and error.
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These are things we learn by trial and error.
margin for error
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A birdie is rare indeed at Aldeburgh where there is virtually no margin for error, especially if the wind blows.
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Her margin for error shrinks to two or three seconds.
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Next week, with or without Young in the lineup, the 49ers know their margin for error will be dramatically reduced.
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That meant there was no margin for error.
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The margins for error on a smallholding are extremely narrow; only a skilled and diligent husbandman can hope to succeed.
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The coaches want to call every play and reduce their margin for error.
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They repeat the errors of the past, until finally their margin for error has been all but eroded.
margin of error
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The poll has a margin of error of three percent.
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Because of the difficulties associated with radiocarbon dating, each new date is given a statistical margin of error.
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Obviously the figure is subject to a margin of error.
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Over two years of use, for more than 4,000 tests, it has never strayed beyond the permitted margin of error.
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The margin of error is plus or minus one percent.
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The poll has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"It says in this advertisement that the exhibition opens at 10." "That's an error ."
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a spelling error
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An error occurred in the processing of your application.
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Over 50 people were denied a vote through a computer error .
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She made very few typing errors.
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The report concluded that the accident was caused by human error .
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There seems to be an error in the data.
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Whenever I try to enter the data the computer gives me an error window.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If the information entered into any field is invalid, an error message will be displayed at the foot of the page.
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Nobody really knows how Dionysius made such an error .
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Similarly, we may say that merely verbal errors can be corrected in standard ways.
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So we shall have copies of errors being duplicated in the population.
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The objective is to adjust weights so that the error in the output layer is reduced.
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The text is disfigured by irritating errors and sloppy proofreading.
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Until recently, their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error .