The difference between Blunder and Error

When used as nouns, blunder means a clumsy or embarrassing mistake, whereas error means the state, quality, or condition of being wrong.

When used as verbs, blunder means to make a clumsy or stupid mistake, whereas error means to function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.

check bellow for the other definitions of Blunder and Error

  1. Blunder as a noun:

    A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

  1. Blunder as a verb (intransitive):

    To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

    Examples:

    "to blunder in preparing a medical prescription"

  2. Blunder as a verb (intransitive):

    To move blindly or clumsily.

  3. Blunder as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to make a mistake.

  4. Blunder as a verb (transitive):

    To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

  1. Error as a noun (uncountable):

    The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.

  2. Error as a noun (countable):

    A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.

  3. Error as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    Sin; transgression.

  4. Error as a noun (computing, countable):

    A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.

  5. Error as a noun (statistics, countable):

    The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.

  6. Error as a noun (baseball, countable):

    A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.

  7. Error as a noun (appellate, _, legal, uncountable):

    One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.

  8. Error as a noun:

    Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.

  1. Error as a verb (computing):

    To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.

    Examples:

    "The web-page took a long time to load and errored out."

    "Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there."

    "This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message."

  2. Error as a verb (telecommunications):

    To show or contain an error or fault.

    Examples:

    "The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received."

  3. Error as a verb (nonstandard):

    To err.

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