n.
1.a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
2.inadvertent incorrectness
3.a misconception resulting from incorrect information
4.(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
5.departure from what is ethically acceptable
6.(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
7.part of a statement that is not correct
Idiom of the Day
sign one's own death warrant
to do something knowingly that will probably result in severe trouble
Our secretary signed her own death warrant when she came to work late three times last week.
