A fault is an error caused by ignorance, bad judgment or inattention. If you're a passenger, it might be your fault that your friend missed the exit, if you were supposed to be watching for it, not sleeping.
Defect; want; lack; default.
Noun
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"
Noun
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"
Noun
responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John''s fault"
Noun
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"
Noun
(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"
Noun
(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"
Noun
an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
Verb
put or pin the blame on
n.
Defect; want; lack; default.
n.
Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs
excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
n.
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a
deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
n.
A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
n.
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the
seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
n.
A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
n.
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
v. t.
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to
blame.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Fault
One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend.2.
As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault.3.
Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out.6.
Fault
For that I will not fault thee.2.
Fault
If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted.
Defect; want; lack; default.
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Usage Examples
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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?
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility and I do.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.
I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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