fault
IPA: fˈɔɫt
noun
- A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
- A mistake or error.
- A weakness of character; a failing.
- A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which subjects a person or thing to increased risk of danger.
- A minor offense.
- Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
- (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
- (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
- (tennis) An illegal serve.
- (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
- (obsolete) want; lack
- (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
verb
- (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
- (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
- (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
- (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.
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Examples of "fault" in Sentences
- It's not your fault.
- It was the depositor's fault.
- It is not his fault to wanton.
- It was the fault of the system.
- This is the fault in the system.
- It is not his fault to be tubby.
- That is the fault of the nominator.
- That is not the fault of the experimenter.
- No, that's usually the fault of the haircut.
- However, its faults were always faults of ambition, not timidity.
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