Fault
[fɔːlt;fɒlt] or [fɔlt]
Definition
(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'.
Inputed by Franklin--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Tim
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Editor: Margie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Defect, error, imperfection, flaw, misdeed, failure, omission, want, drawback
ANT:Sufficiency, correctness, completeness, perfection
Inputed by Edgar
Definition
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.
Checked by Llewellyn
Unserious Contents or Definition
About the only thing that is often found where it does not exist.
Typed by Aldo
Examples
- It is I who have been in fault: I ought to have seen that I could not afford to live in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And if I don't make his mother subject to me, too, it shall not be my fault. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For this seems to me nothing but the resuscitation of the devil: when things go wrong it is somebody else's fault. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She spoke not a word, but stole to bed after her father had left her, like a child ashamed of its fault. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Wine and wassail, he added, gravely casting up his eyes--all the fault of wine and wassail! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If niggers is quiet, and don't try to get off, they has good times with me; and if they don't, why, it's thar fault, and not mine. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It's not her fault if everybody don't know it now, growled Trenor, flushed with the struggle of getting into his fur-lined coat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- As in everything else, it has taken time to overcome the faults of the early trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I must reproach her with her faults, and then--she will throw the plates and dishes in my face! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I am acquainted with my faults. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes, I am guilty of those faults, and punished for them every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In other words, the very faults that we noted in the negative, from a picture point of view, automatically right themselves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Had this charming creature no faults? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Edited by Johanna