Details of word FAULT

Definition of fault

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

Word "fault" contains 5 letters : A F L T U

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