What's the difference between amiss and erroneous?

Amiss


Definition:

  • (adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
  • (a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
  • (n.) A fault, wrong, or mistake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The economy, stupid" is a plausible-sounding answer, but it is stupidly amiss.
  • (2) T-Mobile: ‘Restricted Bling’ (starts at 10:21) Rap star Drake demonstrates extraordinary compliance no matter what’s asked of him in this funny advert for T-Mobile which aims to suggest that the network’s rivals “ruin everything”, but a longer version with him actually incorporating the lines “device eligible for upgrade after 24 months” and “streaming music will incur data charges” into his song wouldn’t go amiss.
  • (3) The coroner found that Ben continued to "play enthusiastically", and "displayed no immediately obvious physical signs that anything was amiss", but in the video, his symptoms clearly tally with those described on the Scat card.
  • (4) How this flora is controlled and what is amiss when virulent or pathogenic bacteria can cause infection are fascinating questions.
  • (5) This is the first time in my reread I've found something amiss: a King novel that doesn't have the story to back itself up.
  • (6) They do seem entirely unaware of contradictions in their arguments – Senator Cory Bernardi, for example, seeing nothing amiss in attacking Turnbull for distracting from the government’s message by responding when commentator Andrew Bolt accused him of leadership manoeuvring on national television and a nationally-syndicated newspaper column.
  • (7) Even the Guardian found nothing amiss in running a story about this and not quoting anyone who currently sells sex .
  • (8) Yes, of course it is, but a bit of humility amongst politicians never goes amiss.
  • (9) But more self-imposed quarantine wouldn't go amiss; more baristas who stay home; more coffee cups that remain untouched by those malign particles.
  • (10) Michael’s mam, my mother-in-law, rang our landline, which was a sign something was amiss, and tearfully delivered the news that Michael had taken his own life.
  • (11) This is not to say grassroot efforts may go amiss but we must not forget the historical socio-economic issues countries are still entrenched in.
  • (12) When the fixture list came out Advocaat would have fancied Sunderland’s chances of having six points by now but something looks seriously amiss within a side requiring a radical rebuild.
  • (13) The residents of Wang Kelian sensed something was amiss when a number of people stumbled on to their streets, weak and injured, and began to beg for food and water.
  • (14) Selby can't hit the yellow, so foul and amiss is called, and then again - this time he gets much closer.
  • (15) That isn’t, of course, because the NHS has taken to medieval blood-letting techniques, but rather because those who showed up at the infirmary door will have disproportionately had something seriously amiss.
  • (16) He is showing encouraging signs of having got the social care message, but a little forceful reminding cannot go amiss.
  • (17) Many new possibilities for treatment which have appeared recently have resulted from the amission of page limitation.
  • (18) Physiocal examination on amission demonstrated revealed a pulsating mass in the midabdomen, absence of pulsation of the right femoral artery and cold pale skin of the right leg.
  • (19) I wouldn’t imagine that people will get enough to cover their whole costs, but I would think that a payment to at least cover some expenses wouldn’t go amiss,” he said.
  • (20) A couple of days off in Blackburn wouldn't go amiss.

Erroneous


Definition:

  • (a.) Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.
  • (a.) Misleading; misled; mistaking.
  • (a.) Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
  • (2) While there are many potential causative factors, erroneous concepts of IOL positioning and design appear to have led to PBK with many iris-supported and anterior chamber lens styles.
  • (3) A conclusion was made of inappropriateness of the use of iron combined with other preparations in view of numerous cases of side-effects and danger of the development of siderosis of internal organs as a result of erroneous drug administration.
  • (4) The results showed that measurements of impression profiles and SEM photogrammetry gave the most accurate results adjacent to regions simulating steep cavity margins, whereas the profilometric technique gave erroneous results in these regions.
  • (5) The belief that hydrocephalus could not be caused by venous obstruction is the result of erroneous or inadequate concepts of venous anatomy.
  • (6) Of 153 patients with confirmed rectal cancer CEA was recorded in 139 (90.8%); erroneous results were noted in 14 (9.2%) patients; in scintigraphy with 67Ga-citrate and 111In-bleomycin diagnoses coincided in 147 (96.1%) patients, and false-negative results were noted in 6 (3.9%) patients.
  • (7) Since patients with this type of implant may be examined with computed tomography (CT) for possible pulmonary metastatic disease, recognition of the CT appearance is important in order to avoid the erroneous diagnosis of an infected prosthesis.
  • (8) The proportion of aberrantly projecting axons appears to be quite small, and in most embryos, it was impossible to determine whether the erroneous projections originated from unbranched axons or were collateral branches of others.
  • (9) These results indicate that the use of serially diluted BPDE-DNA of high modification as standard competitor in the ELISA will lead to erroneous results in the measurement of adducts in DNAs modified to a low extent (biological samples).
  • (10) Playing, interfering with erroneous beliefs about sexual arousal, and avoiding helping the workhorse work harder are the trust of this paper.
  • (11) Such an analyser (Capnomac, Datex) was tested while performing two errors: a) erroneous selection of the agent on the analyser, the vaporizer being filled with the correct agent; b) total or partial filling of the vaporizer (Vapor 19, Dräger) with an incorrect agent, the analyser being set for the agent the vaporizer was specified for.
  • (12) In this study we show that Durkheim's interpretation of the historical evidence is erroneous: not increasing condemnation of suicide, but rather tolerance or mild aversion is the typical social response to suicide.
  • (13) Causes of erroneous diagnoses seemed to be multifactorial, such as inappropriate sampling, diagnosis on poor quality histology sections, lack of clinical information, lack of enough experience in FS practice of pathologists, or a combination of more than two of them, though inevitable cases showing minimal cytological and structural atypia were included.
  • (14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
  • (15) Over-emphasis of clinical features or neglect of CT findings should be discouraged as they may lead to erroneous diagnosis; 3.
  • (16) It also confirms that the old concept of consistency of the mandibular postural position (Thompson, 1946) is erroneous.
  • (17) In the conventional competitive binding assay, damaged radioligand, dissociation of the binding complex, or limitations of ligand availability may be responsible for the erroneous results.
  • (18) Experimental data suggest, however, that the 'inert tube' model may be erroneous for polar solvents which have a high water solubility.
  • (19) In two-thirds of these cases the delay was due to an erroneous diagnosis, either of cerebrovascular accident or of alcoholic intoxication.
  • (20) Supply rates less than removal rate will result in erroneous measurements of the constant removal rate.