fault

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.

   “No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game.”

2. isim A failing of character; less severe than a vice.

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

3. isim A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which increases one's risk of danger or difficulty.

   “You're still young, that's your fault.”

4. isim A strongly undesirable variation of food or drink caused by impurity or contamination.

   “Cork taint is one of the most recognizable wine faults.”

5. isim A point of weakness in something's physical structure.

   “As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault.”

6. isim A minor offense.
7. isim An illegal serve.

   “It is a fault if the ball served drop in the net, or beyond the Service-Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court. A fault may not be taken. After a fault, the Server shall serve again from the same Court from which he served that fault.”

8. isim A penalty point assessed in horseback events such as show jumping.

   “If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults.”

9. isim An exception within a software program or process.
10. isim A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.

    “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.”

11. isim An abnormal connection within an electric circuit.
12. isim A loss of the scent being tracked by a hound.

    “Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.”

13. isim An intrusion of another material, such as dirt or slate, within a coal seam.
14. isim want; lack; absence

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

15. fiil 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.”

16. fiil To fracture.
17. fiil To commit a mistake or error.
18. fiil To undergo a page fault.