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Fault   /fɔlt/   Listen
Fault

noun
1.
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.  Synonyms: error, mistake.  "She was quick to point out my errors" , "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
2.
An imperfection in an object or machine.  Synonyms: defect, flaw.  "If there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
3.
The quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection.  Synonym: demerit.  "He knew his own faults much better than she did"  Antonym: merit.
4.
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.  Synonyms: break, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift.  "He studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
5.
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.).
6.
Responsibility for a bad situation or event.
7.
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area).
verb
(past & past part. faulted; pres. part. faulting)
1.
Put or pin the blame on.  Synonym: blame.  Antonym: absolve.



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"Fault" Quotes from Famous Books



... not a single Frenchman should be allowed to return from Egypt; and here their commander-in-chief had passed successfully from end to end of the station, unseen by any British cruiser. He did not, however, consider himself at fault, and his judgment may be allowed, although in his own case. "If I could have had any cruisers, as was my plan, off Cape Bon, in Africa, and between Corsica and Toulon, Mr. Buonaparte could not probably ...
— The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
... and all the delights of the sea temporarily denied to her. Perhaps not quite all, when she came to think of it. She could not paddle, but she might manage to hobble down to the shore, and sit on the sun-baked rocks. Even Mademoiselle could surely find no fault with this. And she might possibly find someone to talk to. She was so fond of talking, and it was a perpetual regret to her that she could not understand the ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
... Mr. Grimes was more at fault than he actually was," said Ruth, boldly. "Surely he did not ...
— Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Or Helping The Dormitory Fund • Alice Emerson
... dimensions in which you have to seat yourself for the next three hours. There are no twenty minutes during which you are doomed to sit in miserable expectation. Exactly at the hour named the music begins, and for two hours it is your own fault if you be not happy. A railway-carriage has brought you to steps leading up to the garden in which these princely halls are built, and when the music is over will again take you home. Nothing can be more perfect than the concert-room at Monte Carlo, and nothing more charming; and for ...
— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope
... lost," said Mrs Delvile, "but if once it was yet higher, the fault was my own, in indulging an expectation of perfection to which ...
— Cecilia vol. 3 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)


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