Definitions for fault

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fault fault

Spelling: [fawlt]

IPA: /fɔlt/

Fault is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in fault (afltu).

Definitions for fault

noun

1. a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing:
2. responsibility for failure or a wrongful act:
3. an error or mistake:
4. a misdeed or transgression:
5. Sports. a ball that when served does not land in the proper section of an opponent's court. a failure to serve the ball according to the rules, as from within a certain area.
6. Geology, Mining. a break in the continuity of a body of rock or of a vein, with dislocation along the plane of the fracture (fault plane)
7. Manège. (of a horse jumping in a show) any of a number of improper executions in negotiating a jump, as a tick, knockdown, refusal, or run-out.
8. Electricity. a partial or total local failure in the insulation or continuity of a conductor or in the functioning of an electric system.
9. Hunting. a break in the line of scent; a losing of the scent; check.
10. Obsolete. lack; want.

Idioms

1. at fault, open to censure; blameworthy: in a dilemma; puzzled: (of hounds) unable to find the scent.
2. find fault, to seek and make known defects or flaws; complain; criticize:
3. to a fault, to an extreme degree; excessively:

verb (used with object)

1. Geology. to cause a fault in.
2. to find fault with, blame, or censure.

verb (used without object)

1. to commit a fault; blunder; err.
2. Geology. to undergo faulting.

Origin of fault

1250-1300; Middle English faute Anglo-French, Middle French Vulgar Latin *fallita, noun use of feminine of *fallitus, for Latin falsus, past participle of fallere to be wrong

Examples for fault

I forgive you, if you are sorry for the fault, and my arms are ready to receive you.

It distorts more and more every day of the month, every year, due to the slow effects of fault creep.

It seemed she echoed all the things I was telling myself—this is YOUR fault.

Now I shall be expelled from college and it is all your fault.

Big Bird's honest reaction will emotionally wreck you in a way even The fault in Our Stars can't.

His horse, accustomed to a more open country, was continually at fault.

Attempts at reducing Red Band Society to a simple branding or logline have typically called it fault in Our Stars meets Glee.

I will not punish your fault so severely as Alcibiades ventured to hope.

Geometrically, it is a cube being forced into a rhomboid by the fault.

He had not intended this; it seemed hardly his fault: his intentions had been good, or at least not bad.