Dictionary Entry
fault
fault is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Defect; want; lack; default. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Defect; want; lack; default.
- 2noun
Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
- 3noun
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
- 4noun
A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
- 5noun
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
- 6noun
A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
- 7noun
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
- 8transitive verb
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
- 9transitive verb
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.
- 10intransitive verb
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
- 11noun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
"he made a bad mistake"
"she was quick to point out my errors"
- 12noun
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
"he served too many double faults"
- 13noun
responsibility for a bad situation or event
"it was John's fault"
- 14noun
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"
Synonyms
- 15noun
(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"
- 16noun
(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"
"he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
- 17noun
an imperfection in an object or machine
"a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"
"if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
- 18verb
put or pin the blame on
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