The flashes of light wandering in your brain that represent this possibility are strong enough to make you cringe and cry. The death of innocent people at the hands of America, whether by misdirected bombs or in the fog of war, would undermine the moral purpose of war. For two days, he had faced death, fought like a legionnaire or a knight and, in short, played the hero. Middle English erraunt, from Anglo-French irrit, present participle of errer à err & errer to travel, from late Latin iterare, from Latin iter road, voyage â more at itinerant But perhaps another erroneous remark by Hickenlooper recorded at the meeting best sums up the whole mess. Something or someone described as faulty has gone astray or made mistakes while going in an unexpected direction. A stray bird could land in northern Canada while its friends fly to southern Mexico for the winter. When Schettino orders him to turn the ship, he is heard repeating erroneous orders. While error is often used as a synonym for „bad behavior” or „bad guy,” it also refers to things that simply don`t belong. A misdirected bomb can hit a house instead of a military base, and a faulty lock of hair can get into your eyes. Mistakes can be intentional, as in „wandering boys missed school to go to the movies,” or unintentional, as in „a wandering snowball hit your neighbor instead of your nemesis.” However, when a misguided volleyball failed to push him out of the picket table he was sitting on, the extra weight came in handy. Gone are the ugly memories of faulty throws on the wrong bases or reckless cuts. Some things have changed a lot since 1984, when wandering father Buck wrote to his young lover. Chasing a swarm of stray bees has nothing to follow a naked madman when the escape crisis is upon him! He should have been born six or seven hundred years ago, he would have made a delightful knight.

The blood carried the therapy to the liver, where it turned off the mutated gene and slowed down the production of the defective protein. Errant has a divided history. It comes from Anglo-French, a language in which two confusingly similar verbs with identical spellings („to wander”) coexisted. A errer meant „to wander” and comes from the Latin errare, which means „to wander” or „to wander”. The second odyssey meant „to travel” and goes back to the Latin iter, which means „road” or „journey”. The two „err” homographs contributed to the development of „errend”, which is not surprising related to both movement and error. A „knight” travels in search of adventure. Cowboys gather the „stray calves”. A „wayward child” is someone who misbehaves. (You may also sometimes see „arrant” – it`s a word that is originally a variation of „wandering” and usually means „extreme” or „shameless.”) Being defeated by a „wandering” pawn in the middle of the board is a shameful way to lose the game. Josh Bell, who isn`t the fastest runner — or the second-fastest runner — went home right from the start, his shot was supported by a faulty throw from left fielder Justin Williams to the cut-off man.

In my lifetime, his horse is a mule – what a pity it wasn`t just any knight! Highly flammable solvents are used to produce lipids, so mobile phones must be enclosed in special covers to prevent sparks. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Music theme by Joshua Stamper 2006©New Jerusalem Music/ASCAP Once the same word, they now have very different meanings Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.