(v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
(v. i.) To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
(v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
(v. i.) To offend, as by erring.
Example Sentences:
(1) But isn't it better to err on the side of caution and start emoting more?
(2) We take the health of our performers very seriously and felt that it was better to err on the side of caution while we determine whether anyone else may have been exposed."
(3) A given diver was reasonably consistent in the direction of his error from one trial to another and from one maneuver to another, although about half the divers tended to err to the right and half to the left.
(4) Antony Altbeker, author of Fruit of a Poisoned Tree, about a miscarriage of justice, said: "Society should err on the side of giving bail to the accused.
(5) But O'Cathain and colleagues say it is perhaps inevitable that call handlers without medical training will err on the side of caution and send people to seek emergency care.
(6) "Err on the side of the [New York] Times, not xoJane ."
(7) All submammalian vertebrates have extraretinal photoreceptors (ERR) that can mediate entrainment of circadian rhythms to 24-h light-dark (LD) cycles.
(8) So this review of the Keynote news will err on the side of optimism.
(9) When localizing tones, however, the barn owl errs in a manner that suggests that it is confused by phantom targets.
(10) to rats for 5 days, indole-3-carbinol was a potent inducer of hepatic ERR deethylation and cytochrome P-450 activity, but had much less effect in the intestine.
(11) The PRC for ONX lizards (only ERRs present) shows a threefold increase in the amplitude of both the advance and delay portions of the PRC compared with a PRC previously generated for sighted S. occidentalis.
(12) This synchronizing system is functionally coupled with the olfactory generator of electrographic respiratory response (ERR), which is brought into activity by nasal air flow.
(13) Thus, immunosuppressive regimens used in cardiac transplant programs tend to err (if they err) on the side of heavier suppression and accept the consequences of this choice.
(14) Unexpectedly, the majority of in vivo ermA transcripts detected were only 245 nt long, suggesting that expression of ErR may be regulated post-transcriptionally.
(15) Humans consistently err in their percepts of rotational motion viewed through an aperture.
(16) While both adults and children err on the 'place of articulation' feature most often, and 'nasality' least often, children produce 'voicing' feature errors less often than adults do, indicating that voicing may be a more important organizing principle for young children than for adults.
(17) "Err no, every right thinking person wants their own team to win, not the best team to win, weirdo.
(18) In my judgment, the Court errs egregiously by overriding Congress’ decision.
(19) Scanning electron microscopy morphometric analysis found major evidence of ERR in the tooth-borne jackscrew appliance, in the long-term group, in the maxillary premolars, on the buccal and furcation root surfaces, on the mesiobuccal root, and in the apical zone.
(20) Concomitantly with splenomegaly, ERR gene expression in spleen cells increases dramatically.
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.