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n. A character weakness, especially a minor one.

n. Something that impairs or detracts from physical perfection; a defect. See Synonyms at blemish.

n. A mistake; an error.

n. A minor offense or misdeed.

n. Responsibility for a mistake or an offense; culpability. See Synonyms at blame.

n. Geology A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture. Also called shift.

n. Electronics A defect in a circuit or wiring caused by imperfect connections, poor insulation, grounding, or shorting.

n. Sports A bad service, as in tennis.

n. Obsolete A lack or deficiency.

v. To find error or defect in; criticize or blame.

v. Geology To produce a fault in; fracture.

verb-intransitive. To commit a mistake or an error.

verb-intransitive. Geology To shift so as to produce a fault.

idiom. at fault Deserving of blame; guilty: admitted to being at fault.

idiom. at fault Confused and puzzled.

idiom. find fault To seek, find, and complain about faults; criticize: found fault with his speech.

idiom. to a fault To an excessive degree: generous to a fault.

n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.

n. A mistake or error.

n. A weakness of character.

n. A minor offense.

n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.

n. A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity

n. An illegal serve.

n. An abnormal connection in a circuit.

v. To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

v. To fracture.

v. To commit a mistake or error.

v. To undergo a page fault.

n. Defect; want; lack; default.

n. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.

n. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

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n. A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

n. In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam

n. A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

n. Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

n. 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.

n. A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.

v. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

v. To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p..

verb-intransitive. To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

n. Defect; lack; want; failure. See default.

n. A lack; a defect; an imperfection; a failing, blemish, or flaw; any lack or impairment of excellence: applied to things.

n. An error or defect of judgment or conduct; any deviation from prudence, rectitude, or duty; any shortcoming, or neglect of care or performance, resulting from inattention, incapacity, or perversity; a wrong tendency, course, or act.

n. An occasion of blame or censure; a particular cause for reprehension or disapproval: as, to charge one with a fault, or find fault with one.

n. Blame; censure; reproach.

n. The act of losing the scent; a lost scent: said of sporting dogs.

n. In geology, a severing of the continuity of a body of rock by a break through the mass, attended by movement on one side or the other of the break, so that what were once parts of one continuous stratum are now separated.

n. In tennis, a stroke by which the server fails to drive the ball into the proper part of his opponent's court. See lawn-tennis.

n. In telegraphy, a new path opened to a current by any accident; a derived current, or derivation.

n. In hunting, thrown off the scent or the trail; unable to find the scent, as dogs.

n. Unable to proceed, by reason of some embarrassment or uncertainty; puzzled; out of bearing; astray.

n. Synonyms Flaw.

n. Misdeed, misdemeanor, transgression, wrong-doing, delinquency, weakness, slip, indiscretion.

To lack.

To charge with a fault; find fault with; reproach.

In geology, to cause a fault in.

To scent or see; find out; discover.

To be in fault; be wrong; fail.

n. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

n. responsibility for a bad situation or event

n. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

v. put or pin the blame on

n. the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection

n. (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)

n. an imperfection in an object or machine

n. (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)

"Apostles Peter and Paul, and to all the saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed, _through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault_. '"

faulted    faulting    faults   

responsibleness    responsibility    accuse    charge    worth    equipment failure    breakdown   

blame    negligence    cleft    to find fault    reverse fault    at fault    dip-fault    overthrust fault    at a fault    gravity fault   

faulted    faulting    to a fault    at fault   

weakness    -- error    vice    defect    imperfection    blemish    failing    blunder    want    lack   

Perrault    Renault    Walt    assault    basalt    default    exalt    galt    gault    halt   

error    defect    weakness    difficulty    sin    offence    vice    danger    flaw    feeling