English noun: fault | |||
1. | fault (act) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | ||
Samples | He made a bad mistake. She was quick to point out my errors. I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults. | ||
Synonyms | error, mistake | ||
Broader (hypernym) | nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | balls-up, ballup, betise, bloomer, blooper, blot, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, cockup, confusion, distortion, flub, folly, foolishness, foul-up, fuckup, imbecility, incursion, lapse, mess-up, miscalculation, miscue, misestimation, misreckoning, mix-up, offside, omission, oversight, parapraxis, pratfall, renege, revoke, skip, slip, slip-up, smear, smirch, spot, stain, stupidity | ||
2. | fault (state) an imperfection in an object or machine | ||
Samples | A flaw caused the crystal to shatter. If there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer. | ||
Synonyms | defect, flaw | ||
Broader (hypernym) | imperfection, imperfectness | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | blister, bug, glitch, hole | ||
3. | fault (attribute) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | ||
Samples | They discussed the merits and demerits of her novel. He knew his own faults much better than she did. | ||
Synonyms | demerit | ||
Broader (hypernym) | worth | ||
Antonyms | merit, virtue | ||
4. | fault (object) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | ||
Samples | They built it right over a geological fault. He studied the faulting of the earth's crust. | ||
Synonyms | break, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift | ||
Broader (hypernym) | cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | inclined fault, strike-slip fault | ||
Instance hyponym | Denali Fault, San Andreas Fault | ||
Part holonym | fault line | ||
Domain category | geology | ||
5. | fault (event) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) | ||
Samples | It took much longer to find the fault than to fix it. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | breakdown, equipment failure | ||
Domain category | electronics | ||
6. | fault (attribute) responsibility for a bad situation or event | ||
Samples | It was John's fault. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | responsibility, responsibleness | ||
7. | fault (act) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | ||
Samples | He served too many double faults. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | serve, service | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | double fault, footfault | ||
Domain category | badminton, lawn tennis, squash, squash rackets, squash racquets, tennis | ||
English verb: fault | |||
1. | fault (communication) put or pin the blame on | ||
Synonyms | blame | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody with something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | accuse, charge | ||
Antonyms | absolve, justify, free | ||