Thesaurus: fault

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1. n. Defect; want; lack; default.
2. n. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
3. n. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
4. n. A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
5. n. In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
6. n. A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
7. n. Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
8. v. t. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
9. 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.
10. v. i. To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
11. n. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
12. n. an imperfection in an object or machine