404 error
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error 404
- The website displayed a 404 error, which meant the requested page was no longer available.
Examples
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Now, some sites have hidden their admin panels, so even if the above URLs return 404 errors, this doesn't mean that the site isn't running on WordPress.
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She received a 404 error while trying to access the website after the server was updated.
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How many times a day do you get a 404 error message when looking for information on the internet?
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But it just gives me a 404 error.
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However, at the time she accessed it, the link was broken, resulting in a 404 error.
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If you try to type in these URLs, they all give a 404 error.
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Valeria Setti, Project Officer for Missing Children in Europe, tells Mashable that instead of getting the dreaded 404 error, users will see a message that says "This page cannot be found."
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When I clicked the link, I was greeted with a 404 error indicating the page could not be found.
Synonyms
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3.0
A computer problem that makes a program give a wrong result or stop
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
404 + error
The word 'error' signals a problem, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would infer that something has gone wrong on a website, but they would not be able to deduce the specific sense 'page not found' because '404' is an arbitrary HTTP status code whose precise meaning is conventional. The numeric code is standardized across languages (so recognizable in web contexts) but its exact interpretation must be learned, making the expression only partially predictable.
Etymology
The name 404 error comes from early web servers that used simple numbers to name each problem. The number '404' was the code for 'page not found', so when a browser cannot find a web page you see a 404 error.