fault

/fɔ:lt/

Thân thiện

The tennis player committed a fault on his first serve.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A mistake or error: A fault is something wrong or incorrect that is done, often due to poor judgment or carelessness.
   • A defect or flaw: A fault can be a physical imperfection in an object or system.
   • Responsibility for something wrong: Fault refers to the blame or accountability for a mistake or bad situation.
   • (Geology) A crack in the Earth's crust: A fault is a fracture where rock masses have moved relative to each other.
   • (Sports) An illegal serve: In games like tennis, a fault is an invalid serve, such as one that lands outside the correct area.
   • (Electronics) A malfunction: A fault is a failure in an electrical circuit or equipment.

2. Verb:

   • To criticize or blame: To find fault with someone or something is to criticize or assign blame.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • The accident was not my fault. (Responsibility)
  • There is a small fault in the fabric. (Defect)
  • The earthquake occurred along a major fault. (Geology)
  • The tennis player served a double fault. (Sports)
  • The engineer located the electrical fault. (Electronics)

• Verb:

  • It is hard to fault her for being cautious. (To blame/criticize)

Advanced Usage

• "To a fault": To an excessive degree.

  • He is generous to a fault. (He is excessively generous.)

• "At fault": Responsible for a mistake or failure.

  • The investigation proved which driver was at fault.

• "Find fault with": To criticize or complain about (someone or something).

  • She is always finding fault with my work.

Variants and Related Words

• Faulty (adj): Having defects or imperfections; not working correctly.

  • The car was recalled due to faulty brakes.

• Faultless (adj): Without any mistakes or defects; perfect.

  • She gave a faultless performance.

• Faultfinding (n/adj): The act of looking for and criticizing faults; tending to criticize.

  • His faultfinding attitude made the team uncomfortable.

Synonyms

• Noun: Defect, flaw, error, mistake, blame, responsibility, shortcoming, imperfection.
• Verb: Blame, criticize, censure.

Related Phrases

• "With all faults": (Commerce) Sold without guarantee, with the buyer accepting any existing defects.
  • The item was sold at auction with all faults.

Idioms

• "Through no fault of one's own": Used to say something bad happened to someone even though they did nothing wrong.
  • He lost his job through no fault of his own.

Học thuật

Noun

1. (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
   • he served too many double faults
2. responsibility for a bad situation or event
   • it was John's fault
3. (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
   • it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it
4. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
   • they built it right over a geological fault
   • he studied the faulting of the earth's crust
5. the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
   • they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel
   • he knew his own faults much better than she did
6. an imperfection in an object or machine
   • a flaw caused the crystal to shatter
   • if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer
7. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
   • he made a bad mistake
   • she was quick to point out my errors
   • I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults

Verb

1. put or pin the blame on

Từ đồng nghĩa

• faulting
• geological fault
• shift
• fracture
• break
• demerit
• defect
• flaw
• mistake
• error
• blame