Synonyms of the word err


ERRDRIFT - GO - LOCOMOTE - MISTAKE - MOVE - SLIP - STRAY - TRAVEL

err

  • v. (intransitive) To make a mistake.
  • v. (intransitive) To sin.
  • v. (archaic) to stray.

drift

  • n. (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
  • n. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
  • n. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
  • n. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention;…
  • n. (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
  • n. (handiwork) A tool.
  • n. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
  • n. (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an…
  • n. (nautical) Movement.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
  • v. (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
  • v. (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
  • v. (transitive) To drive into heaps.
  • v. (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
  • v. (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence…
  • v. (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
  • v. To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner…

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

locomote

  • v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

mistake

  • n. An error; a blunder.
  • n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
  • v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
  • v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

slip

  • n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
  • n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
  • n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
  • n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
  • n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
  • n. A long, thin piece of something.
  • n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
  • n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
  • v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
  • v. (intransitive) To err.
  • v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
  • v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
  • v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
  • v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
  • v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
  • v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
  • n. An act or instance of slipping.
  • n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
  • n. A slipdress.
  • n. A mistake or error.
  • n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
  • n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
  • n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
  • n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
  • n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
  • n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
  • n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
  • n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
  • n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
  • n. An outside covering or case.
  • n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
  • n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
  • n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
  • n. A particular quantity of yarn.
  • n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
  • n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
  • n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
  • n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
  • n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
  • n. A fish, the sole.

stray

  • n. Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is…
  • n. (figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
  • n. The act of wandering or going astray.
  • n. (historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e…
  • v. (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
  • v. (intransitive) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to stray.
  • adj. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering.
  • adj. In the wrong place; misplaced.

travel

  • v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
  • v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  • v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
  • v. (transitive) To force to journey.
  • v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
  • n. The act of traveling.
  • n. pl A series of journeys.
  • n. pl An account of one's travels.
  • n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  • n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
  • n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

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