Mistake vs. Fault
Mistakenoun
An error; a blunder.
Mistakenoun
(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
Mistakeverb
(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
Mistakeverb
To misunderstand (someone).
Mistakeverb
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
Mistakeverb
To take or choose wrongly.
Mistakeverb
To take or choose wrongly.
Mistakeverb
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.
Mistakeverb
To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.
Mistakeverb
To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
Mistakeverb
To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
Mistakenoun
An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
Mistakenoun
Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
Mistakenoun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;
Mistakenoun
an understanding of something that is not correct;
Mistakenoun
part of a statement that is not correct;
Mistakeverb
identify incorrectly;
Mistakeverb
to make a mistake or be incorrect
Mistakenoun
an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong
Mistakenoun
something, especially a word, figure, or fact, which is not correct; an inaccuracy
Mistakeverb
be wrong about
Mistakeverb
wrongly identify someone or something as
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
