Definition of Fault

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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.

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Fault Quotations

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford

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

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

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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