fault | |
— n | |
1. | an imperfection; failing or defect; flaw |
2. | a mistake or error |
3. | an offence; misdeed |
4. | responsibility for a mistake or misdeed; culpability |
5. | electronics a defect in a circuit, component, or line, such as ashort circuit |
6. | geology a fracture in the earth's crust resulting in the relativedisplacement and loss of continuity of the rocks on either sideof it |
7. | tennis, squash, badminton an invalid serve, such as one thatlands outside a prescribed area |
8. | (in showjumping) a penalty mark given for failing to clear orrefusing a fence, exceeding a time limit, etc |
9. | hunting an instance of the hounds losing the scent |
10. | deficiency; lack; want |
11. | at fault |
a. guilty of error; culpable | |
b. perplexed | |
c. (of hounds) having temporarily lost the scent | |
12. | find fault to seek out minor imperfections or errors (in); carp(at) |
13. | to a fault excessively |
— vb | |
14. | geology to undergo or cause to undergo a fault |
15. | ( tr ) to find a fault in, criticize, or blame |
16. | ( intr ) to commit a fault |
[C13: from Old French faute , from Vulgar Latin fallita (unattested), ultimately from Latin fallere to fail] |
Monday, 17 January 2011
which fault is mine?
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it's your fault