Faulternoun
(obsolete) One who commits a fault.
Faulternoun
One who commits a fault.
Faultnoun
A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
Faultnoun
A mistake or error.
Faultnoun
A weakness of character; a failing.
Faultnoun
A minor offense.
Faultnoun
Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
Faultnoun
(seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
Faultnoun
(mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
Faultnoun
(tennis) An illegal serve.
Faultnoun
(electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
Faultnoun
(obsolete) want; lack
Faultnoun
(hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Faultverb
(transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
Faultverb
To fracture.
Faultverb
(intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
Faultverb
To undergo a page fault.
Faultnoun
Defect; want; lack; default.
Faultnoun
Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
Faultnoun
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
Faultnoun
A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
Faultnoun
A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Faultnoun
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Faultnoun
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.
Faultnoun
A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.
Faultverb
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
Faultverb
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.
Faultverb
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Faultnoun
responsibility for a bad situation or event;
Faultnoun
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
Faultnoun
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection;
Faultnoun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;
Faultnoun
an imperfection in a device or machine;
Faultnoun
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area);
Faultnoun
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.);
Faultverb
put or pin the blame on