fault
Noun
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is a type of: nonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goalsubtypes:
- blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- confusion, mix-up - a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- incursion - the mistake of incurring liability or blame
- miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning - a mistake in calculating
- distortion - the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- offside - (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
- lapse, oversight - a mistake resulting from inattention
- omission, skip - a mistake resulting from neglect
- bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall - an embarrassing mistake
- balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled
- betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity - a stupid mistake
- renege, revoke - the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
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is a type of: imperfection, imperfectness - the state or an instance of being imperfectsubtypes:
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is a type of: worth - the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or usefulsame as: demerit
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referred to in: geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rockssubtypes:
- inclined fault - a geological fault in which one side is above the other
- strike-slip fault - a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally
specific instances:- denali fault - a major open geological fault in Alaska
- san andreas fault - a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes
has: fault line - (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface -
referred to in: electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devicesis a type of: breakdown, equipment failure - a cessation of normal operation
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is a type of: responsibility, responsibleness - a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct
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referred to in:
- squash, squash rackets, squash racquets - a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- badminton - a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
- lawn tennis, tennis - a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
subtypes:- double fault - (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point
- footfault - a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline
Verb
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same as: blame
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