Fault

[fɔːlt;fɒlt] or [fɔlt]

解释:

(noun.) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); 'he served too many double faults'.

(noun.) responsibility for a bad situation or event; 'it was John's fault'.

(noun.) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); 'it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it'.

(noun.) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; 'they built it right over a geological fault'; 'he studied the faulting of the earth's crust'.

富兰克林校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Defect; want; lack; default.

(n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.

(n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

(n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

(n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.

(n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

(n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

(v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

(v. i.) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

编辑:蒂姆

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Defect, blemish, flaw, imperfection, failing.[2]. Misdeed, misdemeanor, offence, trespass, wrong, delinquency, transgression.[3]. Mistake (of judgment), error, indiscretion, slip, lapse.[4]. [Rare.] Default, lack, want.[5]. [Geol.] Dislocation, disturbance of strata.

校对:玛吉

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Defect, error, imperfection, flaw, misdeed, failure, omission, want, drawback

ANT:Sufficiency, correctness, completeness, perfection

埃德加整理

解释:

n. a failing: error: blemish: imperfection: a slight offence: (geol. min.) a displacement of strata or veins: (tennis) a stroke in which the player fails to serve the ball into the proper place.—adj. Fault′ful (Shak.) full of faults or crimes.—adv. Fault′ily.—n. Fault′iness.—adj. Fault′less without fault or defect.—adv. Fault′lessly.—n. Fault′lessness.—adj. Fault′y imperfect defective: guilty of a fault: blamable.—At fault open to blame: (of dogs) unable to find the scent; Find fault (with) to censure for some defect.

校对:卢埃林