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fault

noun
/fɔːlt/UK/fɔlt/US/fɑlt//fɒːlt/CA

Etymology

From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.

  1. derived from falsus
  2. derived from *fallita✻
  3. derived from faute
  4. derived from faute
  5. inherited from faulte

Definitions

  1. Culpability

    Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.

    • No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game.
    • I told them the pie was still too hot. If they burn their tongues, that's their fault.
    • The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

  2. A defect, imperfection, or weakness

    A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.

    • Despite all her faults, she’s a good person at heart.

  3. A mistake or error.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.

      • That might explain why the last three major earthquakes occurred not at San Andreas faults, where it would seem natural to expect them, but in both adjacent fault groups.

    2. want

      want; lack; absence

      • one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend

    3. To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

      • For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
      • "There will a team over there [he waves towards York's Rail Operating Centre] like flight engineers, maintaining it and faulting it from a ROC rather than a van by the side of the track."

    4. To fracture.

    5. To commit a mistake or error.

    6. To undergo a page fault.

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Derived

active fault, a fault confessed is half redressed, arc fault, at fault, at-fault, blind thrust fault, Byzantine fault tolerance, dextral fault, double fault, double-fault, downfault, electrical fault, fault current, faultfinder, faultfind, fault-find, fault-finding, faultfinding, fault-free, faultful, fault gouge, fault injection, faultless, fault-line, fault line, fault plane, fault-prone, fault scarp, fault tolerance, fault-tolerant, fault trace, fault tree, faultworthy, faulty, find fault, findfault, foot fault, footfault, interfault, it's not my fault · +22 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fault. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fault. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fault

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA