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Definition of Fault

Fault Defect; want; lack; default. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime. A dislocation of the strata of the vein. In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted. To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. 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. A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Related Definitions: Accuse, Act, Along, Also, An, Another, Anything, Are, As, Badly, Ball, Blame, Blemish, Blunder, Break, By, Caused, Charge, Chiefly, Circuit, Coal, Commit, Conductor, Contact, Continuity, Court, Crime, Crossing, Default, Defect, Defective, Dereliction, Deviation, Dirt, Dislocated, Dislocation, Displacement, Do, Due, Duty, Earth, Electric, Err, Excellence, Facture, Failing, Failure, Fault, Faulted, Find, Fracture, From, In, Interrupt, Into, Is, Lack, Less, Losing, Lost, Moral, Of, Offense, Or, Plane, Point, Proper, Propriety, Rendered, Resulting, Rock, Scent, Seam, Serious, Serve, Slate, Slipping, Strata, Structure, Such, Than, That, The, To, Used, Vein, Want, Wanting, With, Worthless, Wrong

Fault Quotations Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. Francois de La Rochefoucauld If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. Stephen Leacock The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fault Translations fault in Danish is skyld fault in Dutch is schuld fault in French is faute fault in Italian is disturbo fault in Latin is peccamen, vitium, culpa, macula, lapsus, erratum fault in Norwegian is feil, skyld fault in Portuguese is falha fault in Spanish is culpa, defecto, fallo, perturbacion fault in Swedish is bock, skuld

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