Dictionary entry details
• FAULT (noun)
Meaning:
Responsibility for a bad situation or event
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
it was John's fault
Hypernyms ("fault" is a kind of...):
responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct)
Meaning:
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
geological fault; faulting; fracture; fault; break; shift
Context examples:
they built it right over a geological fault / he studied the faulting of the earth's crust
Hypernyms ("fault" is a kind of...):
cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure (a long narrow opening)
Meronyms (parts of "fault"):
fault line ((geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fault"):
inclined fault (a geological fault in which one side is above the other)
strike-slip fault (a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally)
Instance hyponyms:
Denali Fault (a major open geological fault in Alaska)
San Andreas Fault (a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes)
Meaning:
The quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
demerit; fault
Context examples:
they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel / he knew his own faults much better than she did
Hypernyms ("fault" is a kind of...):
worth (the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful)
Meaning:
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
error; mistake; fault
Context examples:
he made a bad mistake / she was quick to point out my errors / I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
Hypernyms ("fault" is a kind of...):
nonaccomplishment; nonachievement (an act that does not achieve its intended goal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fault"):
blot; smear; smirch; spot; stain (an act that brings discredit to the person who does it)
renege; revoke (the mistake of not following suit when able to do so)
betise; folly; foolishness; imbecility; stupidity (a stupid mistake)
balls-up; ballup; cockup; mess-up (something badly botched or muddled)
bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall (an embarrassing mistake)
omission; skip (a mistake resulting from neglect)
lapse; oversight (a mistake resulting from inattention)
offside ((sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.))
miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up (a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.)
distortion (the mistake of misrepresenting the facts)
miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning (a mistake in calculating)
incursion (the mistake of incurring liability or blame)
confusion; mix-up (a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another)
Meaning:
An imperfection in a device or machine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
flaw; defect; fault
Context example:
if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer
Hypernyms ("fault" is a kind of...):
imperfection; imperfectness (the state or an instance of being imperfect)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fault"):
bug; glitch (a fault or defect in a system or machine)
hole (a fault)
Meaning:
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
he served too many double faults
Hypernyms ("fault" is a kind of...):
serve; service ((sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play)
Domain category:
squash; squash rackets; squash racquets (a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets)
badminton (a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net)
lawn tennis; tennis (a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fault"):
footfault (a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline)
double fault ((tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point)
Meaning:
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it
Hypernyms ("fault" is a kind of...):
breakdown; equipment failure (a cessation of normal operation)
Domain category:
electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)
• FAULT (verb)
Meaning:
Put or pin the blame on
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
blame; fault
Hypernyms (to "fault" is one way to...):
accuse; charge (blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
