fault

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /fɔːlt/|/fɒlt/    美 /fɔlt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
    — No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game.
  2. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.; A failing of character; less severe than a vice.
    — Despite all her faults, she’s a good person at heart.
  3. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.; 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. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.; A strongly undesirable variation of food or drink caused by impurity or contamination.
    — Cork taint is one of the most recognizable wine faults.
  5. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.; A point of weakness in something's physical structure. obsolete
    — As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault.
  6. A mistake or error.; A minor offense.
  7. A mistake or error.; 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. A mistake or error.; A penalty point assessed in horseback events such as show jumping.
    — If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults.
  9. A mistake or error.; An exception within a software program or process.
  10. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.; 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. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.; An abnormal connection within an electric circuit.
  12. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.; 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. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.; An intrusion of another material, such as dirt or slate, within a coal seam.
  14. want; lack; absence obsolete
    — one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend
动词 v.
  1. To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. transitive
    — For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
  2. To fracture. intransitive
  3. To commit a mistake or error. intransitive
  4. To undergo a page fault. intransitive

词形变化

faults plural faults present,singular,third-person faulting participle,present faulted participle,past faulted past

词汇关系

衍生词
active fault a fault confessed is half redressed arc fault at fault at-fault blind thrust fault Byzantine fault tolerance dextral fault double fault double-fault downfault electrical fault fault current faultfinder faultfind fault-find fault-finding faultfinding fault-free faultful fault gouge fault injection faultless fault-line fault line fault plane fault-prone fault scarp fault tolerance fault-tolerant fault trace fault tree faultworthy faulty find fault findfault foot fault footfault interfault it's not my fault locked fault no-fault divorce no-fault no fault page fault pick-fault pick fault postfault pseudofault San Andreas fault segfault segmentation fault sinistral fault strikeslip fault subfault time fault to a fault triple fault upfault wrench fault faultable faulter
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.
词源 2
From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.
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