FAULT
\fˈɒlt], \fˈɒlt], \f_ˈɒ_l_t]\
Definitions of FAULT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did"
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responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault"
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(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"
By Princeton University
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the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did"
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(tennis or badminton or squash) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"
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responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Defect; want; lack; default.
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Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
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A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
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A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
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In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
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A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
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Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
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To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
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To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
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A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.
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A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Defect; want; lack; default.
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Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
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A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
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A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
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In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
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A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
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Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
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To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
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To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
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A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.
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A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French, Italian, Latin] A failing; an error; a mistake; a blunder;—a want; defect; absence; lack;—a moral failing; imperfection; neglect of duty; impropriety; slight offence;—a difficulty; a puzzle;—losing of the scent in hunting;—a break or interruption of strata.
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