| Fault |
n. |
Defect; want; lack; default. |
| Fault |
n. |
Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. |
| Fault |
n. |
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime. |
| Fault |
n. |
A dislocation of the strata of the vein. |
| Fault |
n. |
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. |
| Fault |
n. |
A lost scent; act of losing the scent. |
| Fault |
n. |
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. |
| Fault |
v. t. |
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. |
| Fault |
v. t. |
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 |
v. i. |
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. |
| Fault |
n. |
A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. |
| Fault |
n. |
A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. |
