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Definition: Fault |
FaultNoun1. Responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault". 2. (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". 3. 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". 4. 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". 5. An imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer". 6. (tennis or badminton or squash) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults". 7. (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". Verb1. Put or pin the blame on. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fault" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Fault \Fault\, noun. [Old English faut, faute, French faute (compare to It., Sp., & Portuguese falta), from a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., from Latin fallere to deceive. See Fail, and compare to Default.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Fault 1. |
19th Century Satire | About the only thing that is often found where it does not exist. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Electrical Engineering | An unplanned occurrence or defect in an item which may result in one or more failures of the item itself or of other associated equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any undesired change that impairs normal operation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A fracture or fracture zone along which there has been displacement of the sides relative to one another parallel to the fracture. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | When the earth's crust is stressed beyond its folding resistance, breaks or -- occur which may displace the beds on either side of the --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | A fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the fracture. Strike-slip faults are vertical (or nearly vertical) fractures where the blocks have mostly moved horizontally. If the block opposite an observer looking across the fault moves to the right, the slip style is termed right lateral; if the block moves to the left, the motion is termed left lateral. Dip-slip faults are inclined fractures where the blocks have mostly shifted vertically. If the rock mass above an inclined fault moves down, the fault is termed normal, whereas if the rock above the fault moves up, the fault is termed reverse (or thrust). Oblique-slip faults have significant components of both slip styles. (references) |
| A weak point in the Earth's crust and upper mantle where the rock layers have ruptured and slipped. Faults are caused by earthquakes, and earthquakes are likely to reoccur on pre-existing faults. (references) | |
| A fracture in the Earth along which one side has moved in relative to the other. Sudden movements on faults cause earthquakes. (references) | |
Literature | Fault At fault. Not on the right track; doubtful whether right or wrong. Hounds are at fault when the scent is broken because the fox has jumped upon a wall, crossed a river, cut through a flock of sheep, or doubled like a hare. In Geology, the break or displacement of a stratum of rock is called a fault. Fault (French, faute, Latin, fallo, to fail.) For fault of a better (Shakespeare: Merry Wives, i. 4). Having no better. "I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse." - Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. In fault. To blame. "Is Antony or we in fault for this?" Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 13. To a fault: In excess; as, kind to a fault. Excess of every good is more or less evil. To find fault. To blame; to express disapprobation. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A fracture or a fracture zone in crustal rocks along which there has been displacement of the two sides relative to one another parallel to the fracture. The displacement may be a few inches or many miles long. b. A break in the continuity of a body of rock. It is accompanied by a movement on one side of the break or the other so that what were once parts of one continuous rock stratum or vein are now separated. The amount of displacement of the parts may range from a few inches to thousands of feet. Various descriptive names have been given to different kinds of faults, including closed fault; dip fault; dip-slip fault; distributive fault; flaw fault; gravity fault; heave fault; hinge fault; horizontal fault; longitudinal fault; normal fault; oblique fault; oblique slip fault; open fault; overthrust fault; parallel displacement fault; pivotal fault; reverse fault; rotary fault; step fault; strike fault; strike-slip fault; thrust fault; transcurrent fault; translatory fault; underthrust; vertical fault; want. c. In coal mining, a sudden thinning or disappearance of a coal seam. Alsoknown as a want or pinchout. (references) |
Science | A fracture or break in the Earth's crust along which one side of the break is pushed up, down, or sideways. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Fault, Defect. Speakers and writers often fail to discriminate in the use of these words. A defect implies a deficiency, a lack, a falling short, while a fault signifies that there is something wrong. "Men still had faults, and men will have them still, He that hath none, and lives as angels do Must be an angel." "It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A geological fault is a crack or joint between two blocks of earth (usually tectonic plates) that are moving or have moved relative to each other. Earthquakes often occur along faults.
In telecommunication, the term fault has the following meanings:
1. An accidental condition that causes a functional unit to fail to perform its required function.
2. A defect that causes a reproducible or catastrophic malfunction.
Note: A malfunction is considered reproducible if it occurs consistently under the same circumstances.
3. In power systems, an unintentional short-circuit, or partial short-circuit, between energized conductors or between an energized conductor and ground.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fault."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FATE | English | Fault tree simulation | N/A |
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Synonyms: FaultSynonyms: break (n), defect (n), demerit (n), error (n), flaw (n), fracture (n), geological fault (n), mistake (n), shift (n), blame (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: merit (n), absolve (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dereliction of Duty | Noun: dereliction of duty; fault; (guilt); sin; (vice); non-observance, non-performance; neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; dead letter. |
Discontinuity | Noun: discontinuity; disjunction; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap; (interval); solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation; (periodicity); dropping fire. |
Error | Mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; (failure); botchery; (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; (absurdity); haplography. |
Failure | Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk. |
Guilt | Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's all Obi-Wan's fault! He's jealous (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) First rule of leadership: everything is your fault (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) It's not your fault, Felix (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) I couldn't let themOh this is all my fault. If only I'd gotten here sooner (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury) This time it was your fault. (The Enemy Below; writing credit: Wendell Mayes. Based on the novel by D.A. Rayner.) | |
Lyrics | It's all your fault (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) Just tell the judge it was my fault, and I'll get sued (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) Hell, it could be my fault (Margaritaville; performing artist: JIMMY BUFFET) And it's all your fault (Spiderwebs; performing artist: No Doubt) | |
Clever | Being young is a fault which improves daily. (references; author: Swedish Proverb) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Somebody's Fault (1927) 'Twas Henry's Fault (1919) The Baby's Fault (1915) All the Dog's Fault (1914) His Own Fault (1912) | |
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 | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Fault block structures on the Oregon continental slope Image is 30 nautical miles by approximately 50 nautical miles. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | E. B. Latham putting new spring in truck Earth Movements Investigations on the San Andreas Fault 1st and 2nd order triangulation Triangulation party of Ector B. Latham. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Sidescan sonar system on SURVEYOR Used to explore for offshore extension of San Andreas Fault. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Recovery of sidescan sonar system on SURVEYOR Used to explore for offshore extension of San Andreas Fault. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Tell them there is no fault in him. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nettie whirled to face him : it's your fault. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | It was not my fault if the whole house--. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | It's all his fault!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | November 17, 1938. Near Stockton, California. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead-Jones Act. "When a feller is in it for himself, if he makes it, it's his. If he don't make it, it's his fault alone". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Near Stockton, California. November 17, 1938. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead Jones Act. "When a feller is in for himself, if he makes it, it's his. If he don't make it, it's his fault alone." (Tenant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | The real fault is to have faults and not amend them. |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. |
Henry Ford | Don't find fault, find a remedy. |
Johnson | Avarice is always poor, but poor by its own fault. |
Katherine Fullerton Gerould | You can bear anything if it isn't your own fault. |
Pliny The Younger | His only fault is that he has no fault. |
Plutarch | To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. |
Swedish Proverb | Being young is a fault which improves daily. |
William Shakespeare | Condemn the fault, and not the act of it? |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Since, moveover, for God and the amendment of our kingdom and for the better allaying of the quarrel that has arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these concessions, desirous that they should enjoy them in complete and firm endurance forever, we give and grant to them the underwritten security, namely, that the barons choose five and twenty barons of the kingdom, whomsoever they will, who shall be bound with all their might, to observe and hold, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted and confirmed to them by this our present Charter, so that if we, or our justiciar, or our bailiffs or any one of our officers, shall in anything be at fault towards anyone, or shall have broken any one of the articles of this peace or of this security, and the offense be notified to four barons of the foresaid five and twenty, the said four barons shall repair to us (or our justiciar, if we are out of the realm) and, laying the transgression before us, petition to have that transgression redressed without delay. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | What he adds, into the power and dominion of a foreign nation, signifies nothing, the fault and forfeiture lying in the loss of their liberty, which he ought to have preserved, and not in any distinction of the persons to whose dominion they were subjected. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He saw no fault in the room, he would acknowledge none which they suggested |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Alice turned round, ready to find fault with anybody |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The fault was mine |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It may be wrong to obey even then, but if so, the fault is venial |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | At the words my most grievous fault he ceased, breathless |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Would it might please your Grace, On our entreaties, to amend your fault! GLOUCESTER |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | If something went wrong it would be his fault, and while no one would say it, everyone, and Al most of all, would know it was his fault |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Some would find fault with the morning red, if they ever got up early enough |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is not their fault. (references) | |
But we do know that it's not the mother's fault. (references) | ||
Remember that it's a medical problem and it's not your fault. (references) | ||
Business | Exceptions could also be made for parts which do not reach 40 percent local content due to the fault of the Chinese supplier. (references) | |
Since the 1980's, KEPCO has introduced the multi-divide multi-tie concept to the distribution line system to minimize the fault times and fault areas. (references) | ||
Children | Canada | In May 2000, the Catholic Church announced that it would participate in a "compassion fund," but would not issue a formal apology or admit fault in the cases. (references) |
Iceland | While significant progress has been made in the last few years in addressing the concerns and needs of persons with physical disabilities, some mental health advocates fault the Government for not devoting sufficient attention and resources to the care of persons with mental disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Russia | During the year, the Government was more active in preventing or reversing discriminatory actions taken at the local level, by more actively disseminating information to the regions and, when necessary, reprimanding the officials at fault. (references) |
Economic History | Pakistan | The time period may vary from a few hours to several days, depending on the nature of the product and the fault in the equipment. (references) |
Human Rights | France | The judge attributed all fault to a doctor who is serving a sentence for involuntary manslaughter. (references) |
Austria | The investigation into the death in May 2000 of a Slovakian man while in police custody concluded with a finding of no fault on the part of the police. (references) | |
Minorities | Sweden | The Government investigates and prosecutes race-related crimes, although in many clashes between Swedish and immigrant youth gangs, authorities judge both sides to be at fault. (references) |
Political Rights | Uganda | The Court found that the EC was at fault for its handling of the election. (references) |
Guinea | Observers from various organizations affiliated chiefly with developing countries issued a statement that found no fault with the election-day vote-casting process; however, observers from European and other credible foreign organizations did not endorse that statement, which was issued before the election results were announced and which did not address the registration, campaigning, and vote-counting processes. (references) | |
Trade | Kuwait | If the exporter fails to correct the fault, the goods will either be re-exported at his own expense, or will be auctioned. (references) |
Travel | Portugal | They are thorough to a fault, often pouring over all the documents relative to a negotiation, and not too ready "to just hit the highlights". (references) |
Worker Rights | Syria | No additional back wages are awarded should the employer be found at fault, nor are wage penalties imposed in cases in which the employer is not found at fault. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. 'Twas a pair of boots that the lady bought, And the salesman laced them tight To a very remarkable height -- Higher, indeed, than I think he ought -- Higher than can be right. For the Bible declares -- but never mind: It is hardly fit To censure freely and fault to find With others for sins that I'm not inclined Myself to commit. Each has his weakness, and though my own Is freedom from every sin, It still were unfair to pitch in, Discharging the first censorious stone. Besides, the truth compels me to say, The boots in question were made that way. As he drew the lace she made a grimace, And blushingly said to him: "This boot, I'm sure, is too high to endure, It hurts my -- hurts my -- limb." The salesman smiled in a manner mild, Like an artless, undesigning child; Then, checking himself, to his face he gave A look as sorrowful as the grave, Though he didn't care two figs For her paints and throes, As he stroked her toes, Remarking with speech and manner just Befitting his calling: "Madam, I trust That it doesn't hurt your twigs." B. Percival Dike |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gennifer Flowers | I may have started it, but I didn't perpetuate the problem. If there is a strategy as we sit here and talk it would be Bill Clinton's fault, and I think that he certainly should take responsibility for his actions, which at times he finds hard to do. |
Rush Limbaugh | Yet when the fires happen, and they will always happen, it's bye-bye pristine, and the environmentalists run around all panicked, when it's their fault. |
Tip O'Neill | Not our fault, as a matter of fact, the press of America, the media of America really love the president of the United States. You see their press conferences, all they do is throw up softball to him. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Even descending to this low and narrow view of the mighty question, all such calculations are at fault. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This corrects a serious fault in our past food assistance policy. |
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| "Fault" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.68% of the time. "Fault" is used about 3,469 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.68% | 3,423 | 2,825 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.12% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,469 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fault": at fault ♦ be at fault ♦ bedding fault ♦ being at or in fault ♦ blink at a fault ♦ cold fault ♦ common fault ♦ cross country fault ♦ Denali Fault ♦ dip fault ♦ distributive fault ♦ double fault ♦ fault condition ♦ fault detection ♦ fault finder ♦ fault finding ♦ fault investigation ♦ fault line ♦ fault location ♦ fault plane ♦ fault seeding ♦ fault simulation ♦ fault tolerance ♦ fault tolerant ♦ fault tree analysis ♦ fault trough ♦ fault wall ♦ find fault ♦ find fault with ♦ find fault with smb. ♦ foot fault ♦ for fault of ♦ fundamental fault ♦ gap fault ♦ gaping fault ♦ general Protection Fault ♦ geological fault ♦ gravity fault ♦ gross fault ♦ horizontal displacement of normal fault ♦ horizontal displacement of reverse fault ♦ horizontal fault ♦ hug a fault ♦ impute the fault to another ♦ inclined fault ♦ mend a fault ♦ multiple fault ♦ multiple fault,distributive fault ♦ normal fault ♦ oblique fault ♦ open fault ♦ overthrust fault ♦ own up a fault ♦ page fault ♦ program fault ♦ put a fault right ♦ reverse fault ♦ reversed fault ♦ san andreas fault ♦ segmentation fault ♦ seismic fault ♦ serious fault ♦ step fault ♦ strike fault ♦ tax smb. with a fault ♦ thrust fault ♦ to a fault ♦ To find fault ♦ To find fault with ♦ To lay a fault misfortune etc at one's door ♦ transverse fault ♦ vertical fault ♦ whose fault is it? ♦ without a fault. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fault": fault-based, fault-based testing, fault-block, fault-blocks, fault-bounded, fault-chasing, fault-controlled, fault-diagnosis, fault-dissected, fault-finder, fault-finding, fault-free, fault-generated, fault-if, fault-line, fault-lines, fault-logging, fault-related, fault-resilience, fault-resilient, fault-resistant, fault-response, fault-tolerance, fault-tolerant, fault-tracing, fault-tree, fault-trees, Fault-zone. | |
Ending with "fault": no-fault. | |
Containing "fault": no-fault insurance, non-fault-tolerant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fault"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | faj (blame, buck, crime, delinquency, guilt, guiltiness, wrong). (various references) | |
Arabic | نقيصة (demerit, infirmity, vice, want, weakness), لام (admonish, blame, censure, reprehend, reproach, twit), غلطة (balk, error, inaccuracy, mistake, stumble, trip), غضاضة (shortcoming), سيئة (iniquity, sin, vice), زلة (cringing, error, faux pas, frailty, lapse, peccadillo, stumble), عيب (blemish, blot, blotch, deformity, demerit, disgrace, failing, flaw, imperfection, infirmity, shortcoming, stain, vice, want), عاب (carp, find fault, nibble, pick holes in, reproach, stain), صدع (breach, chasm, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, rent, rift, split), ذنب إثم (guilt), خلل (acetify, blemish, defect, deficiency, disorder, failing, flaw, imperfection, pickle, preserve, souse, trouble), خطأ (balk, error, flaw, inaccuracy, misconception, miss, mistake, stumble), جنحة (misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, petty crime, trespass), إنتقد (carp, criticize, find fault, lace, maul, nibble, peck, quarrel, slash, slate, snipe, stricture, taking apart, upbraid). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | образувам разсед, изгубена следа, повреда (breakdown, conk, damage, defect, failure, flaw, hurt, injury, lesion, mischief, scathe, trouble), причинявам разсед, правя грешка (perpetrate, slip up), простъпка (delinquency, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, perpetration, transgression, trespass, wrongdoing), нарушение (aberration, breach, breaker, breaking, contravention, defection, dereliction, disturbance, entrenchment, foul, infraction, infringement, malpractice, offence, offense, perpetration, transgression, violation), дефект (blemish, defect, demerit, imperfection, shortcoming, vice), неизправност (disrepair, disturbance, malfunction, trouble), съединение (coalescence, combination, compound, conjugation, conjunction, hookup, interconnection, interconnexion, interlock, join, joining, joint, junction, link, linkage, meeting, union), вина (blame, criminality, delinquency, guilt, rap), грешка (blooper, blunder, boss, break, defect, demerit, dereliction, error, inaccuracy, inexactitude, lapse, misdoing, misstep, mistake, muff, slip up, slipping, snafu), критикувам (animadvert, bad-mouth, crab, criticize, nibble, pick at, run down), фал (fall, halliard, halyard), разлом (leap, slide), разсед (dipper, leap, throw, thrust), недостатък (blemish, debit, defect, deficiency, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, failing, flaw, hole, imperfection, kink, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness). (various references) | |
Catalan | culpa (blame, guilt). (various references) | |
Chinese | 過失 (defect), 錯 (blunder, cross, error, mistake, uneven, wrong), 訧 (mistake), 罪 (blame, crime, guilt, sin), 缺點 (shortcoming, weak point), 缺点 (Drawback, flaw, Flawing, imperfection, shortcoming), 碴 (glass fragment, quarrel), 故障 (breakdown, error, glitch, snag), 愆 (transgression), 毛病 (defect, shortcomings). (various references) | |
Czech | závada (imperfection), vina (blame, guilt), vada (altercation, blemish, defect, failing, hole, imperfection, inadequacy, vice), porucha (breakdown, bug, defect, derangement, disorder, failure, lesion), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want), kaz (blemish, defect, flaw, hole, rot), chyba (defect, errata, error, failing, inadequacy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up). (various references) | |
Danish | skyld (blame, guilt). (various references) | |
Dutch | schuld (blame, debt, guilt). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kulpo (blame, guilt). (various references) | |
Finnish | virhe (aberration, blunder, error, mistake, slip), vika (defect, deficiency, flaw). (various references) | |
French | faute, défaut (failing). (various references) | |
Frisian | skuld (blame, debt, guilt). (various references) | |
German | verwerfung (condemnation, discarding, dismissal, quashing, rejection, warp, warping), störung (derangement, disorder, disruption, disturbance, hitch, hold up, interference, interruption, intrusion, jamming, malfunction, perturbation, trouble, upset, violation), fehler (aberration, absence, blemish, bug, defect, deficiency, demerits, error, failing, flaw, flaws, lack, lapse, misstep, mistake, mistakes, nonconformance, shortage, shortcoming, slip, slipup, solecism, trip, vise), bruch (breach, breaching, break, breakage, breaking, burst, crack, fold, fraction, fracture, fragment, hernia, infringement, lump, piece, quarry, rupture, split, violation). (various references) | |
Greek | σφάλμα (bloomer, error, mistake, slip), ελάττωμα (blemish, defect, deficiency, failing, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming, vice), ρήγμα (breach, breakthrough, crack, rift). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | faj (blame, guilt). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תקל" (accident, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, incident, jam, mischance, misfortune, mishap, obstacle, offence), "ופי (blemish, flaw, impurity, insult, scorn, slur, smirch, taint), אשם (accused, blame, blameworthy, culpable, guilt, guilty, offence, sin, trespass), אשמ" (accusation, blame, charge, guilt, guiltiness), פסול (carving, defective, disqualified, hewing, ineligible, invalid, rejected, sculpture, sculpturing, unfit), פ'ם (blemish, blot, defect, flaw, impair, imperfection, notch, shortcoming, weakness), שבוש (blunder, breakdown, confusion, dislocation, disorder, disruption, error), טעות (error, mistake, oversight, slip up, wrong), שליל" (denial, deprivation, negation, prevention, privation, refusal), מום (blemish, defect, deformity, disability, impediment, maim, mutilation), ל"תלו ן על, לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), למצוא פ'ם (find fault, pick holes in), מ'רעת (defect, demerit, disadvantage, shortcoming), מש'" (blunder, error, false step, mistake, oversight, slip up), משו'" (error, mistake), של (error, offence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vetődés (check, dislocation, drift, fracture, puckering), vető (dislocation), vétség (default, delinquency, demerit, misdemeanor, misdemeanour), törés (break, breakage, breaking, chip, comminution, crack, cracking, discontinuity, flaw, fraction, fracture, gall, rift in the lute, rift within the lute, rupture, snap, trauma), szabálytalan adogatás, mulasztás (default, failure, malpractice, omission), hiba (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blooper, blue, bobble, clinker, default, demerit, error, failing, failure, flaw, flub-up, glitch, inaccuracy, lapse, malformation, mischief, mistake, shortcoming, trouble, wrong), hiányosság (blemish, defect, deficiency, flaw, incompleteness, incompletion, insufficiency, scantiness), fogyatékosság (blemish, flaw), botlás (lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, stumbling, trip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sesar, kecelaan (short coming). (various references) | |
Italian | guasto (addle, addled, bad, breakdown, broken, broken down, damage, damaged, defective, failure, out of order, rotten, trouble, wrong), faglia (faille, rift), difetto (blemish, bug, damage, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, desideratum, detriment, disadvantages, disservice, failure, flaw, harm, lack, Miss, shortage, shortcoming, vice). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 難点 (weakness), 失態 (discredit, disgrace, error, failure, mismanagement), 陥 (defect, deficiency), 陥 (defect, deficiency), 所為 (act, cause, deed, one's doing, reason), フェルミ'子 (a walk, fall, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW), 罪 (crime, indiscretion), 失" (discredit, disgrace, error, failure, mismanagement), 罪過 (offence), 過誤 (mistake), 難癖 , 襤褸 (defect, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), 落度 (error, guilt), 辜 (crime, sin), 藍褸 (defect, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), 過ち (error, indiscretion), 過ち (error, indiscretion), 罪 (crime, indiscretion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おちど (error, guilt, mistake), フォールト , フォルト , な"くせ, な"て" (the southern sky, weakness, what score or grade?), しったい (discredit, disgrace, error, failure, measure against unemployment, mismanagement), ざいか (commodity, crime, goods on hand, guilt, offence, offense, property, punishment, stock), ぼろ (defect, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), つみ (checkmate, crime, indiscretion, sin), せい (cause, companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, gender, government, height, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regular, regulation, restraint, sex, spirit, stature, suppression, surname, system, threaten, true), か" (basket, bier, cage, divine protection, litter, mistake, non-standard pronunciation, palanquin), " (arc, big, business, child, counter for houses, counter for mil. units, crime, great, individual, large, old, price, selling, sin, the late, the young of animals), あやまち (error, indiscretion), ら"る (defect, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), けっか" (blood vessel, defect, deficiency). (various references) | |
Korean | 결함. (various references) | |
Manx | loght (crime, default, flaw, guilt, iniquity, serious offence, shortcoming, transgression, trespass, vice), lheamys (blemish, default, defect, deformity, different, flaw, imperfection), fout, foill (blame, defect, flaw, foible, imperfection, vice). (various references) | |
Norwegian | feil (aberration, defect, error, flaw, lapse, mistake), skyld (guilt). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kulpa (accuse, blame, guilt). (various references) | |
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