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fault
Found in thesaurus: responsibleness, responsibility, fissure, crack, crevice, scissure, cleft, worth, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, imperfectness, imperfection, serve, service, breakdown, equipment failure, accuse, charge
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fault
n.
defect, flaw; mistake, error; guilt, blame
v.
find fault, complain; make a mistake, err
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Fault
Fault may refer to:
- Fault (geology), planar rock fractures which show evidence of relative movement
- Fault (dog), in dog breeding, is an undesirable aspect of structure or appearance that indicates the dog should not be bred
- Fault (legal), in criminal law, one must determine fault in a crime
- Fault (technology), an abnormal condition or defect at the component, equipment, or sub-system level which may lead to a failure
- Fault (tennis), a serve that fails to place a tennis ball in the correct area of play
- Fault (power engineering), an unintended electrical connection, a "short circuit", of several kinds
- Fault (computing), also called a trap or an exception, a type of interrupt in software or operating systems
- A penalty in show jumping applied in scoring horse and rider performance
- Faults (film), a 2014 film
- "Fault", a song by Taproot from Welcome
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fault
Noun
1. responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault"
(hypernym) responsibility, responsibleness
(derivation) blame
2. (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"
(synonym) geological fault, shift, fracture, break
(hypernym) crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
(hyponym) Denali Fault
(part-meronym) fault line
(classification) geology
3. 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"
(synonym) demerit
(hypernym) worth
4. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
(synonym) mistake, error
(hypernym) nonaccomplishment, nonachievement
(hyponym) blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
(derivation) blame
5. an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
(synonym) defect, flaw
(hypernym) imperfection, imperfectness
(hyponym) bug, glitch
6. (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"
(hypernym) serve, service
(hyponym) double fault
(classification) tennis, lawn tennis
7. (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"
(hypernym) breakdown, equipment failure
(classification) electronics
Verb
1. put or pin the blame on
(synonym) blame
(hypernym) charge, accuse
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faulen
v.
ruin, blight, cause to wither and die, decay, decompose, deteriorate, waste away
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fault
n.
nedostatek; vada; chyba; vina; zlom
v.
vinit, obviňovat (koho)
