Fault ¹

Definition: Defect; want; lack; default.

Fault ²

Definition: Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.

Fault ³

Definition: A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

Fault ⁴

Definition: A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

Fault ⁵

Definition: In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.

Fault ⁶

Definition: A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

Fault ⁷

Definition: Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

Fault ⁸

Definition: To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

Fault ⁹

Definition: 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.

Fault ¹⁰

Definition: To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

fault ¹¹

Definition: 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"

fault ¹²

Definition: (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"

fault ¹³

Definition: responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John''s fault"

fault ¹⁴

Definition: 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"

fault ¹⁵

Definition: (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"

fault ¹⁶

Definition: (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"

fault ¹⁷

Definition: an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"

fault ¹⁸

Definition: put or pin the blame on