| fault | | |
| n. (act) | 1. error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| ~ nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | an act that does not achieve its intended goal. |
| ~ blot, smirch, smear, stain, spot | an act that brings discredit to the person who does it.; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" |
| ~ mix-up, confusion | a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw" |
| ~ incursion | the mistake of incurring liability or blame. |
| ~ miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning | a mistake in calculating. |
| ~ distortion | the mistake of misrepresenting the facts. |
| ~ parapraxis, slip-up, miscue, slip | 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. |
| ~ blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, bloomer, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| ~ balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up | something badly botched or muddled. |
| ~ betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity, foolishness | a stupid mistake. |
| ~ renege, revoke | the mistake of not following suit when able to do so. |
| n. (state) | 2. defect, fault, flaw | an imperfection in an object or machine.; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" |
| ~ imperfection, imperfectness | the state or an instance of being imperfect. |
| ~ blister | a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint). |
| ~ glitch, bug | a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine. |
| ~ hole | a fault.; "he shot holes in my argument" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. demerit, fault | the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection.; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did" |
| ~ worth | the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful. |
| n. (object) | 4. break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" |
| ~ geology | a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks. |
| ~ fault line | (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface. |
| ~ crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure | a long narrow opening. |
| ~ denali fault | a major open geological fault in Alaska. |
| ~ inclined fault | a geological fault in which one side is above the other. |
| ~ san andreas fault | a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes. |
| ~ strike-slip fault | a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally. |
| n. (event) | 5. fault | (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.).; "it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it" |
| ~ electronics | the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices. |
| ~ equipment failure, breakdown | a cessation of normal operation.; "there was a power breakdown" |
| n. (attribute) | 6. fault | responsibility for a bad situation or event.; "it was John's fault" |
| ~ responsibleness, responsibility | a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct.; "he holds a position of great responsibility" |
| n. (act) | 7. fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area).; "he served too many double faults" |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ squash rackets, squash racquets, squash | 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. |
| ~ serve, service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play.; "his powerful serves won the game" |
| v. (communication) | 8. blame, fault | put or pin the blame on. |
| ~ accuse, charge | blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.; "he charged the director with indifference" |
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