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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

... the time were, and have since been, bestowed upon Jackson, and all the blame of things was, and has since been, laid upon the shoulders of Van Buren. But the fault was not Van Buren's. A number of causes had produced this surprising and distressing state of affairs. After the great success of the Erie and other canals in the East, Western States entered upon an era of canal building which the richest of communities could ill have ...

— Expansion and Conflict • William E. Dodd

... overcome the tendency to make a return without knowing where it will hit. Making returns blindly is a bad habit and leads to instinctive returns—that is, habitual returns with certain attacks from certain parries—a fault which the ...

— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department

... of Varon is strictly just; but, in truth, severe. You French critics seek for a fault as eagerly as I do for a beauty: you consider things in the worst light, to show your skill, at the expense of your pleasure; I view them in the best, that I may have more pleasure, though at the expense of my judgment. A 'trompeur trompeur et demi' is prettily ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... out of their disappointment quarreled bitterly and by their quarrels helped to destroy an agency through which in the past they had worked together, with a remarkable devotion to the public interest, for the achievement of great objectives. No doubt, their greatest fault had been to set their goals too high. Certainly, their greatest virtue was persistence in the faith that great things could be done for England in America, a faith destined in time to be justified by the ...

— The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 • Wesley Frank Craven

... entreaty to the God who had made him, and who withdrew Himself so relentlessly within the blank sky, that a blessing might tall upon the stony wilderness. But this blessing was withheld; whether by his own fault, or through the just will of the Father, Hugh could not wholly discern. The hard fact remained that the inner fortress was blank and bare, and that no friend or lover could ...

— Beside Still Waters • Arthur Christopher Benson

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