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Definition of err in English: errverb əː [no object]formal 1Be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake. 〈正式〉出错；犯错误 the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible 法官裁定那证据不予接受是错误的。 Example sentencesExamples - He also claims that he was told by Board officers he had erred in a previous report also, but on request, he was denied sight of a copy of that report.
- Krugman's main thrust was that the Bank of Japan erred in raising interest rates here in August.
- I stand by most of my articles (as a writer should) but am not afraid to admit when I have erred in judgement.
- Again Riley appeared to have erred in giving the free kick the other way.
- He has done a good job as far as trying to protect us, but we think he erred in these areas, and we feel we can do better, because our strengths are what they are.
- Firstly, Watson claimed that rival Jones had erred in linking the illness to Thompson's form slump.
- The accused appealed on the ground, inter alia, that the trial court erred in refusing the application.
- The army denied the curfew was lifted, but said an initial inquiry ‘indicates that the force erred in its action’.
- I think that as a field, psychology has erred in both ignoring food choice, and in studying food intake in nonoptimal ways.
- In that case, the physicians argued that the trial judge had erred in preferring one responsible body of professional opinion to another.
- I may have erred in posting anything here about this sad dispute.
- I believe that the Government has erred in not making those adjustments, which would have meant tax reductions for all taxpayers.
- The Supreme Court ruled last December that the Surrey School Board erred in disallowing the books in the classroom.
- I'll even shout out when I believe the company has erred in its judgement.
- We say, in this case, that there are three reasons why this Court should find that the Court of Criminal Appeal erred in the exercise of its function.
- He erred in discussing details of the case publicly, and in ringing one of the parties to the case to press her to give up her court defence and return a child to his parents.
- Yorkshire had an unexpectedly good day after it had appeared that Byas had erred in asking Kent to bat first on a fairly docile pitch.
- Nor did they suggest that O'Neill had erred in this selection when they subsequently appeared as ineffectual substitutes.
- We erred in saying that he was being paid and the lad fired off an email saying ‘the matter was now in the hands of my lawyers’.
- I actually think the Court erred in this, but this is now the law, and should block Omaha from doing what it's doing.
Synonyms make a mistake, be wrong, be in error, be mistaken, mistake, make a blunder, blunder, be incorrect, be inaccurate, misjudge, miscalculate, get things/something/it wrong, bark up the wrong tree, get the wrong end of the stick, be wide of the mark informal slip up, screw up, blow it, foul up, goof, boob, fluff something, make a hash of something, put one's foot in it, make a boo-boo, make a bloomer, drop a brick vulgar slang fuck something up, bugger something up offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, transgressing, aberrant, deviant, errant, sinning - 1.1often as adjective erring Sin; do wrong.
作恶；犯罪；犯过错 the erring brother who had wrecked his life Example sentencesExamples - The penalty for erring drivers should be increased substantially.
- It will have the power to initiate legal proceedings against erring officials and police personnel, for which their service rules will be suitably amended.
- They erred by seeking the wrong righteousness, not by the act of seeking.
- Disciplinary action has to be taken by the Government against erring officials.
- More consumer courts need to be set up so that consumer grievances are addressed and erring multinationals are brought to book.
- The refresher course was more a corrective system to erring professional drivers.
- The traffic police have been given instructions to crack down on erring motorists.
- This is the week when the police need to remind erring journalists that the pen might be mightier than the sword, but a lathi can break the pen and the hand that holds it.
- Our Chief Minister must initiate bold disciplinary measures against erring individuals.
- This should prompt the board to wake up from its slumber and initiate legal action against erring industries and strictly enforce the existing laws.
- Chocolate cake can be dry and this one was certainly erring that way.
- An official assured that the issues of illegal towing of the vehicles by the traffic constables will be looked into and action will be taken against erring officials.
- A hotline number has been made available to report corruption and erring officials will be suspended on the spot.
- Court orders should be treated with all seriousness and sanctity and courts should not let erring officials go unpunished.
- Some other police forces have run schemes where residents have been given the opportunity to speak to erring drivers and point out how their speed or manner of driving could put members of the community at risk.
- The thing is I left last season well satisfied, as always, but feeling that the Exchange has been erring a little too much on the side of costume drama.
- Committed journalists teaming up with activists have exposed erring doctors, only to find that the police are not permitted to take action.
- Traffic officers as a matter of routine, get ‘oiled’ by erring motorists for turning a blind eye to defective, unroadworthy or overloaded vehicles, sometimes with fatal consequences.
- Insurance companies can charge higher premiums from erring drivers.
- This is so evident from the faulty officiating in games down to the determination of penalties and punishment given to erring players.
Synonyms misbehave, do wrong, go wrong, behave badly, misconduct oneself, be bad, be naughty, get up to mischief, get up to no good, act up, act badly, give someone trouble, cause someone trouble sin, go astray, transgress, trespass, fall from grace, lapse, degenerate clown about/around, fool about/around, act the clown, act the fool, act the goat, act foolishly, forget oneself informal mess about/around British informal muck about/around, play up
Phrasesformal Act so that the least harmful of possible mistakes or errors is the most likely to occur. 为求稳妥而表现得谨小慎微 last year's boom was the result of a miscalculation, which erred on the right side Example sentencesExamples - I think I shall err on the right side in attaching even greater weight than he.
- He said a few people in the town felt the Government probably erred on the right side, but the majority were disappointed.
- The star rarely eats in, but when she does, she errs on the right side of healthy
- The film's magical, mythic undertones are combined with a gritty, sparse realism that means things always err on the right side of sentiment.
- His playing is assured, his lyrics err just on the right side of ‘sensitive’ and his voice is an emotive tool.
formal Display more rather than less of (a specified quality) in one's actions. （在行为上）更多地表现出（某种品质） it is better to err on the side of caution 多一些谨慎总是好的。 Example sentencesExamples - With around 400 recipes crammed into its pages, it errs on the side of an encyclopaedia rather than an eyeful.
- You want to err on the side of too little water rather than too much.
- Don't get me wrong, I understand the principle: We should err on the side of protecting the innocent rather than punishing the guilty.
- I believe that I made mistakes, but I also believe that I always tried to do the right thing and that I erred on the side of people rather than the law.
- Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel.
- I think the media should always err on the side of revealing rather than concealing.
- Within reason, it may be best to err on the side of too many, rather than too few, participants.
- When refueling with water, it is better to err on the side of too much rather than too little.
- None too soon, in my opinion, but the Administration is understandably erring on the side of completeness and accuracy rather than releasing information piecemeal.
- Women should err on the side of too little rather than too much.
to err is human, to forgive divine proverb It is human nature to make mistakes oneself while finding it hard to forgive others. 〈谚〉犯错人皆难免，宽恕则属超凡 Example sentencesExamples - Maybe we need to look to religion for guidance in such matters, after all, to err is human, to forgive divine.
- ‘Holcombe came to me and said, ‘Hey, Ed, I'm not condoning what you fellows did, but I believe that to err is human, to forgive divine.’
- "To err is human, to forgive divine, as the old saying goes," Bucknor said.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'wander, go astray'): from Old French errer, from Latin errare 'to stray'. Like error (Middle English) and erratic (Late Middle English), err comes to us from Latin errare, which meant ‘to stray, wander’ but could also mean ‘to make a mistake’. The idea of straying or going off the correct course is still found in erratic, and also in the old term knight errant (Middle English), so called because they wandered far and wide in search of adventure. Arrant is a Middle English variant of errant, and aberrant (mid 16th century) is literally a ‘wandering away’ from the right path. The proverb to err is human, to forgive, divine is so old that it is found in Latin (humanum est errare, ‘it is human to err’), and also in the 14th-century work of Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘The proverb says that to sin is human, but to carry on sinning is the devil's work.’ The precise wording that we are familiar with comes from An Essay on Criticism (1711) by the poet Alexander Pope.
Rhymesà deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, seigneur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr Definition of err in US English: errverb [no object]formal 1Be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake. 〈正式〉出错；犯错误 the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible 法官裁定那证据不予接受是错误的。 Example sentencesExamples - He has done a good job as far as trying to protect us, but we think he erred in these areas, and we feel we can do better, because our strengths are what they are.
- The army denied the curfew was lifted, but said an initial inquiry ‘indicates that the force erred in its action’.
- I may have erred in posting anything here about this sad dispute.
- I think that as a field, psychology has erred in both ignoring food choice, and in studying food intake in nonoptimal ways.
- We say, in this case, that there are three reasons why this Court should find that the Court of Criminal Appeal erred in the exercise of its function.
- I'll even shout out when I believe the company has erred in its judgement.
- I believe that the Government has erred in not making those adjustments, which would have meant tax reductions for all taxpayers.
- Firstly, Watson claimed that rival Jones had erred in linking the illness to Thompson's form slump.
- Yorkshire had an unexpectedly good day after it had appeared that Byas had erred in asking Kent to bat first on a fairly docile pitch.
- The Supreme Court ruled last December that the Surrey School Board erred in disallowing the books in the classroom.
- We erred in saying that he was being paid and the lad fired off an email saying ‘the matter was now in the hands of my lawyers’.
- I actually think the Court erred in this, but this is now the law, and should block Omaha from doing what it's doing.
- Krugman's main thrust was that the Bank of Japan erred in raising interest rates here in August.
- He also claims that he was told by Board officers he had erred in a previous report also, but on request, he was denied sight of a copy of that report.
- Nor did they suggest that O'Neill had erred in this selection when they subsequently appeared as ineffectual substitutes.
- In that case, the physicians argued that the trial judge had erred in preferring one responsible body of professional opinion to another.
- I stand by most of my articles (as a writer should) but am not afraid to admit when I have erred in judgement.
- Again Riley appeared to have erred in giving the free kick the other way.
- He erred in discussing details of the case publicly, and in ringing one of the parties to the case to press her to give up her court defence and return a child to his parents.
- The accused appealed on the ground, inter alia, that the trial court erred in refusing the application.
Synonyms offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, transgressing, aberrant, deviant, errant, sinning make a mistake, be wrong, be in error, be mistaken, mistake, make a blunder, blunder, be incorrect, be inaccurate, misjudge, miscalculate, get it wrong, get something wrong, get things wrong, bark up the wrong tree, get the wrong end of the stick, be wide of the mark - 1.1often as adjective erring Sin; do wrong.
作恶；犯罪；犯过错 the erring brother who had wrecked his life Example sentencesExamples - Traffic officers as a matter of routine, get ‘oiled’ by erring motorists for turning a blind eye to defective, unroadworthy or overloaded vehicles, sometimes with fatal consequences.
- This is so evident from the faulty officiating in games down to the determination of penalties and punishment given to erring players.
- This should prompt the board to wake up from its slumber and initiate legal action against erring industries and strictly enforce the existing laws.
- This is the week when the police need to remind erring journalists that the pen might be mightier than the sword, but a lathi can break the pen and the hand that holds it.
- The penalty for erring drivers should be increased substantially.
- Our Chief Minister must initiate bold disciplinary measures against erring individuals.
- A hotline number has been made available to report corruption and erring officials will be suspended on the spot.
- The refresher course was more a corrective system to erring professional drivers.
- The traffic police have been given instructions to crack down on erring motorists.
- The thing is I left last season well satisfied, as always, but feeling that the Exchange has been erring a little too much on the side of costume drama.
- Court orders should be treated with all seriousness and sanctity and courts should not let erring officials go unpunished.
- An official assured that the issues of illegal towing of the vehicles by the traffic constables will be looked into and action will be taken against erring officials.
- Some other police forces have run schemes where residents have been given the opportunity to speak to erring drivers and point out how their speed or manner of driving could put members of the community at risk.
- More consumer courts need to be set up so that consumer grievances are addressed and erring multinationals are brought to book.
- Chocolate cake can be dry and this one was certainly erring that way.
- Disciplinary action has to be taken by the Government against erring officials.
- It will have the power to initiate legal proceedings against erring officials and police personnel, for which their service rules will be suitably amended.
- They erred by seeking the wrong righteousness, not by the act of seeking.
- Committed journalists teaming up with activists have exposed erring doctors, only to find that the police are not permitted to take action.
- Insurance companies can charge higher premiums from erring drivers.
Synonyms misbehave, do wrong, go wrong, behave badly, misconduct oneself, be bad, be naughty, get up to mischief, get up to no good, act up, act badly, give someone trouble, cause someone trouble
UsageTraditionally, err rhymes with her, although the pronunciation that rhymes with hair is now common Phrasesformal Act so that the least harmful of possible mistakes or errors is the most likely to occur. 为求稳妥而表现得谨小慎微 Example sentencesExamples - The star rarely eats in, but when she does, she errs on the right side of healthy
- The film's magical, mythic undertones are combined with a gritty, sparse realism that means things always err on the right side of sentiment.
- His playing is assured, his lyrics err just on the right side of ‘sensitive’ and his voice is an emotive tool.
- He said a few people in the town felt the Government probably erred on the right side, but the majority were disappointed.
- I think I shall err on the right side in attaching even greater weight than he.
formal Display more rather than less of (a specified quality) in one's actions. （在行为上）更多地表现出（某种品质） it is better to err on the side of caution 多一些谨慎总是好的。 Example sentencesExamples - With around 400 recipes crammed into its pages, it errs on the side of an encyclopaedia rather than an eyeful.
- You want to err on the side of too little water rather than too much.
- Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel.
- When refueling with water, it is better to err on the side of too much rather than too little.
- I think the media should always err on the side of revealing rather than concealing.
- I believe that I made mistakes, but I also believe that I always tried to do the right thing and that I erred on the side of people rather than the law.
- Women should err on the side of too little rather than too much.
- None too soon, in my opinion, but the Administration is understandably erring on the side of completeness and accuracy rather than releasing information piecemeal.
- Within reason, it may be best to err on the side of too many, rather than too few, participants.
- Don't get me wrong, I understand the principle: We should err on the side of protecting the innocent rather than punishing the guilty.
to err is human, to forgive divine proverb It is human nature to make mistakes oneself while finding it hard to forgive others. 〈谚〉犯错人皆难免，宽恕则属超凡 Example sentencesExamples - "To err is human, to forgive divine, as the old saying goes," Bucknor said.
- Maybe we need to look to religion for guidance in such matters, after all, to err is human, to forgive divine.
- ‘Holcombe came to me and said, ‘Hey, Ed, I'm not condoning what you fellows did, but I believe that to err is human, to forgive divine.’
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘wander, go astray’): from Old French errer, from Latin errare ‘to stray’. |