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F0053800 (fôlt)n.1. a. A character weakness, especially a minor one.b. Something that impairs or detracts from physical perfection; a defect. See Synonyms at blemish.c. A mistake; an error: a grammatical fault; a fault in his reasoning.d. A minor offense or misdeed: committed her share of youthful faults.2. Responsibility for a mistake or an offense; culpability. See Synonyms at blame.3. Geology A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture. Also called shift.4. Electronics A defect in a circuit or wiring caused by imperfect connections, poor insulation, grounding, or shorting.5. Sports A service of the ball that violates the rules in tennis and similar games.6. Archaic A lack or deficiency.v. fault·ed, fault·ing, faults v.tr.1. To find error or defect in; criticize or blame: faulted the author for poor research; faulted the book for inaccuracies.2. Geology To produce a fault in; fracture.v.intr.1. To commit a mistake or an error.2. Geology To shift so as to produce a fault.3. Sports To commit a fault, as in tennis.Idioms: at fault1. Deserving of blame; guilty: admitted to being at fault.2. Confused and puzzled. find fault To seek, find, and complain about faults; criticize: found fault with his speech. to a fault To an excessive degree: generous to a fault.

[Middle English faulte, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fallita, from variant of Latin falsa, feminine past participle of fallere, to deceive, fail.]

fault

(fɔːlt) n1. an imperfection; failing or defect; flaw2. a mistake or error3. an offence; misdeed4. responsibility for a mistake or misdeed; culpability5. (Electrical Engineering) electronics a defect in a circuit, component, or line, such as a short circuit6. (Geological Science) geology a fracture in the earth's crust resulting in the relative displacement and loss of continuity of the rocks on either side of it7. (Tennis) tennis squash badminton an invalid serve, such as one that lands outside a prescribed area8. (Squash & Fives) tennis squash badminton an invalid serve, such as one that lands outside a prescribed area9. (Badminton) tennis squash badminton an invalid serve, such as one that lands outside a prescribed area10. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) (in showjumping) a penalty mark given for failing to clear or refusing a fence, exceeding a time limit, etc11. (Hunting) hunting an instance of the hounds losing the scent12. deficiency; lack; want13. guilty of error; culpable14. perplexed15. (Hunting) (of hounds) having temporarily lost the scent16. find fault to seek out minor imperfections or errors (in); carp (at)17. to a fault excessivelyvb18. (Geological Science) geology to undergo or cause to undergo a fault19. (tr) to find a fault in, criticize, or blame20. (intr) to commit a fault[C13: from Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin fallita (unattested), ultimately from Latin fallere to fail]

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n. 1. a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing. 2. responsibility for failure or a wrongful act. 3. an error or mistake. 4. a misdeed or transgression. 5. (in tennis, handball, etc.) a. a ball that when served does not land in the proper section of an opponent's court. b. a failure to serve the ball according to the rules, as from within a certain area. 6. a break in the continuity of a body of rock or of a vein, with dislocation along the plane of the fracture (fault plane). 7. Obs. lack; want. v.i. 8. to commit a fault; blunder; err. 9. Geol. to undergo faulting. v.t. 10. to accuse of error; criticize. Idioms: 1. at fault, open to censure; blameworthy. 2. find fault, to complain or be critical. 3. to a fault, to an extreme degree. [1250–1300; Middle English faute < Anglo-French, Middle French « Latin fallere to be wrong] syn: fault, foible, weakness, failing, vice refer to human shortcomings or imperfections. fault refers to any ordinary shortcoming; condemnation is not necessarily implied: Of his many faults the greatest is vanity. foible suggests a weak point that is slight and often amusing, manifesting itself in eccentricity rather than in wrongdoing: the foibles of an artist. weakness suggests that a person is unable to control a particular impulse or response, and gives way to it: a weakness for ice cream. failing is particularly applied to humanity at large, suggesting common, often venial, shortcomings: Procrastination is a common failing. vice is the strongest term and designates a habit that is detrimental, immoral, or evil: to succumb to the vice of compulsive gambling.

faultleft to right: normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults

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(fôlt) A crack in a rock mass along which there has been movement. The rock on one side of the crack moves relative to the rock on the other side of the crack. Faults are caused by plate-tectonic forces. See Note at earthquake.Did You Know? Bedrock is often cracked along surfaces known as planes. In some places the cracks extend only a tiny distance; in others they can run for hundreds of miles. When the rocks separated by a crack move past each other, the cracks are known as faults. The rocks move because they are pushed or pulled by the forces of plate tectonics. This movement often occurs in sudden jerks known as earthquakes. Geologists study faults to learn the history of the forces that have acted on rocks. Normal faults occur when rocks are being pulled apart. In this case, the rocks above the fault plane are moving down relative to the rocks below it. When rocks are pushed together, the opposite happens—the rocks above the plane move upward relative to the rocks below the plane; these types of faults are called reverse faults. Strike-slip faults occur when rocks slide past each other; rocks on either side of the crack slide parallel to the fault plane between them. Transform faults are a special category of strike-slip faults in which the crack is actually part of a boundary between two enormous tectonic plates. This is the nature of the famous San Andreas Fault in California.

blame

fault1. 'blame' used as a verb

If you blame someone for something bad that has happened, you think that they made it happen.

Police blamed the bus driver for the accident.Don't blame me!

You can blame something on someone.

Maya blames all her problems on her parents.2. 'to blame'

If someone is to blame for something bad that has happened, they caused it.

I knew I was partly to blame for the failure of the project.The study found that schools are not to blame for the laziness of their pupils.3. 'fault'

Don't say that something is someone's 'blame'. You say that it is their fault.

This was all Jack's fault.It's not our fault if the machine breaks down.4. 'at fault'

You can say that someone is at fault.

The other driver was at fault.

Be Careful!
Don't say that someone is 'in fault'.

fault

Past participle: faulted
Gerund: faulting

Imperative
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Present
I fault
you fault
he/she/it faults
we fault
you fault
they fault

Preterite
I faulted
you faulted
he/she/it faulted
we faulted
you faulted
they faulted

Present Continuous
I am faulting
you are faulting
he/she/it is faulting
we are faulting
you are faulting
they are faulting

Present Perfect
I have faulted
you have faulted
he/she/it has faulted
we have faulted
you have faulted
they have faulted

Past Continuous
I was faulting
you were faulting
he/she/it was faulting
we were faulting
you were faulting
they were faulting

Past Perfect
I had faulted
you had faulted
he/she/it had faulted
we had faulted
you had faulted
they had faulted

Future
I will fault
you will fault
he/she/it will fault
we will fault
you will fault
they will fault

Future Perfect
I will have faulted
you will have faulted
he/she/it will have faulted
we will have faulted
you will have faulted
they will have faulted

Future Continuous
I will be faulting
you will be faulting
he/she/it will be faulting
we will be faulting
you will be faulting
they will be faulting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been faulting
you have been faulting
he/she/it has been faulting
we have been faulting
you have been faulting
they have been faulting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been faulting
you will have been faulting
he/she/it will have been faulting
we will have been faulting
you will have been faulting
they will have been faulting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been faulting
you had been faulting
he/she/it had been faulting
we had been faulting
you had been faulting
they had been faulting

Conditional
I would fault
you would fault
he/she/it would fault
we would fault
you would fault
they would fault

Past Conditional
I would have faulted
you would have faulted
he/she/it would have faulted
we would have faulted
you would have faulted
they would have faulted

fault

1. A fracture zone where one rock mass has moved against another.2. A service that lands in the net or outside the receiver’s service court.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fault - 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"error, mistakenonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goalblot, smirch, smear, stain, spot - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"mix-up, confusion - a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"incursion - the mistake of incurring liability or blamemiscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning - a mistake in calculatingdistortion - the mistake of misrepresenting the factsparapraxis, slip-up, miscue, slip - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.offside - (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)lapse, oversight - a mistake resulting from inattentionomission, skip - a mistake resulting from neglectblooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, bloomer - an embarrassing mistakeballs-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddledbetise, folly, imbecility, stupidity, foolishness - a stupid mistakerenege, revoke - the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
	2.	fault - 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"flaw, defectimperfection, imperfectness - the state or an instance of being imperfectblister - a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint)glitch, bug - a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machinehole - a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
	3.	fault - 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"demeritworth - the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
	4.	fault - (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"faulting, geological fault, fracture, break, shiftgeology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocksfault line - (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surfacecrack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure - a long narrow openinginclined fault - a geological fault in which one side is above the otherstrike-slip fault - a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally
	5.	fault - (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"electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devicesequipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown"
	6.	fault - responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault"responsibleness, responsibility - a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility"
	7.	fault - (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"double fault - (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the pointfootfault - a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baselinesquash rackets, squash racquets, squash - a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled racketsbadminton - a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a netlawn tennis, tennis - a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the courtserve, service - (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play; "his powerful serves won the game"
Verb	1.	fault - put or pin the blame on blameaccuse, charge - blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged the director with indifference"

fault

noun1. responsibility, liability, guilt, accountability, culpability It was all my fault we quarrelled.2. mistake, slip, error, offence, blunder, lapse, negligence, omission, boob (Brit. slang), oversight, slip-up, indiscretion, inaccuracy, howler (informal), glitch (informal), error of judgment, boo-boo (informal) It was a genuine fault.3. failing, lack, weakness, defect, deficiency, flaw, drawback, shortcoming, snag, blemish, imperfection, Achilles heel, weak point, infirmity, demerit His manners always made her blind to his faults.
failing credit, strength, asset, merit, attribute, virtue, goodness, perfection4. misdeed, failing, wrong, offence, sin, lapse, misconduct, wrongdoing, trespass, frailty, misdemeanour, delinquency, transgression, peccadillo Hypocrisy is one fault of which he cannot be accused.verb1. criticize, blame, complain, condemn, moan about, censure, hold (someone) responsible, hold (someone) accountable, find fault with, call to account, impugn, find lacking, hold (someone) to blame You can't fault them for lack of invention.at fault guilty, responsible, to blame, accountable, in the wrong, culpable, answerable, blamable He didn't accept that he was at fault.find fault with something or someone criticize, complain about, whinge about (informal), whine about (informal), flame (informal), quibble, diss (slang, chiefly U.S.), carp at, take to task, pick holes in, grouse about (informal), haul over the coals (informal), pull to pieces I do tend to find fault with everybody.to a fault excessively, overly (U.S.), unduly, ridiculously, in the extreme, needlessly, out of all proportion, preposterously, overmuch, immoderately He was generous to a fault.Quotations
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,"
"But in ourselves" [William Shakespeare Julius Caesar]

fault

noun1. An imperfection of character:failing, foible, frailty, infirmity, shortcoming, weakness, weak point.2. Something that mars the appearance or causes inadequacy or failure:blemish, bug, defect, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming.3. Responsibility for an error or crime:blame, culpability, guilt, onus.verbTo find fault with:blame, censure, criticize, rap.Informal: cut up, pan.Slang: knock.

Translations

找...的缺点故障断层毛病过错

fault

(foːlt) noun1. a mistake; something for which one is to blame. The accident was your fault.过错2. an imperfection; something wrong. There is a fault in this machine; a fault in his character.毛病3. a crack in the rock surface of the earth. faults in the earth's crust.断层 verb to find fault with. I couldn't fault him / his piano-playing.找...的缺点ˈfaultless adjective without fault; perfect. a faultless performance.完美无缺的ˈfaultlessly adverb完美无缺地ˈfaulty adjective (usually of something mechanical) not made or working correctly. 有缺陷的at fault wrong or to blame. She was at fault.有过错find fault with to criticize or complain of. She is always finding fault with the way he eats.挑剔to a fault to too great an extent. She was generous to a fault.过分

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It wasn't my fault → 不是我的错

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fault,

in geology, fracture in the earth's crust in which the rock on one side of the fracture has measurable movement in relation to the rock on the other side. Faults on other planets and satellites of the solar system also have been recognized. Evidence of faults are found either at the surface (fault surface) or underground (fault plane). Faults are most evident in outcrops of sedimentary formations where they conspicuously offset previously continuous strata. Movement along a fault plane may be vertical, horizontal, or oblique in direction, or it may consist in the rotation of one or both of the fault blocks, with most movements associated with mountain building and plate tectonicsplate tectonics,
theory that unifies many of the features and characteristics of continental drift and seafloor spreading into a coherent model and has revolutionized geologists' understanding of continents, ocean basins, mountains, and earth history.
..... Click the link for more information. . The two classes of faults include the dip-slip (up and down movement), which is further divided into normal and thrust (reverse) faults; and strike-slip (movement parallel to the fault plane). The San Andreas faultSan Andreas fault,
great fracture (see fault) of the earth's crust in California. It is the principal fault of an intricate network of faults extending more than 600 mi (965 km) from NW California to the Gulf of California.
..... Click the link for more information. of California is of this type. In dip-slip faults the term "hanging wall" is used for the side that lies vertically above the other, called the "footwall." A fault in which the hanging wall moves down and the footwall is stationary is called a normal fault. Normal faults are formed by tensional, or pull-apart, forces. A fault in which the hanging wall is the upthrown side is called a thrust fault because the hanging wall appears to have been pushed up over the footwall. Such faults are formed by compressional forces that push rock together and are by far the most common of the dip-slip faults. All types of faults have been recognized on the ocean floor: normal faults occur in the rift valleys associated with mid ocean ridges spreading at slow rates; strike-slip faults appear between the offset portions of mid-ocean ridges; and thrust faults occur at subducting plate boundaries. Active faults, though they may not move for decades, can move many feet in a matter of seconds, producing an earthquakeearthquake,
trembling or shaking movement of the earth's surface. Most earthquakes are minor tremors. Larger earthquakes usually begin with slight tremors but rapidly take the form of one or more violent shocks, and end in vibrations of gradually diminishing force called
..... Click the link for more information. . The largest earthquakes occur along thrust faults. Some faults creep from a half inch to as much as 4 in. (1 to 10 cm) per year. Fault movements are measured using laser and other devices. Faults create interpretation problems for geologists by altering the relations of strata (see stratificationstratification
(Lat.,=made in layers), layered structure formed by the deposition of sedimentary rocks. Changes between strata are interpreted as the result of fluctuations in the intensity and persistence of the depositional agent, e.g.
..... Click the link for more information. ), such as making the same rock layer offset in two vertical cross sections of a formation or making layers disappear altogether. Faults are often seen on the surface as topographical features, including offset streams, linear lakes, and fault scarps.

fault

A vertical or near vertical crustal displacement on the Earth, Moon, Mars, or some other solid body. Lunar faults are usually double but single-sided faults also occur. See also graben; Mars, surface features; rille; wrinkle ridges.

Fault

a rupture in the earth’s crust that occurs during tectonic movements and rock deformation. The walls of faults are formed by the offset rock masses. When a fault is inclined, a distinction is made between the footwall, which underlies the fault, and the hanging wall, which overlies the fault.

Some faults are marked by insignificant relative displacement of the walls (tectonic fractures), and others by significant displacement (fault displacements). Among the latter several different kinds of faults are identified. A strike-slip fault is formed by the horizontal displacement of the walls along a vertical or inclined rupture. An extension fault results from the movement of walls away from one another, and in a normal fault the hanging wall shifts downward. Reverse faults and thrust faults are formed by a displacement of the hanging wall upward; the difference between the two types of faults lies in the size of the angle of dip. An overthrust nappe is formed when a hanging wall is overthrust with great amplitude along a very gentle, a horizontal, or a wavy fault. Combined displacements (for example, combined normal and strike-slip faults) are common.

The size of faults and the amplitude of displacement along them vary. In most cases, tectonic fractures without displacement are not more than a few meters long. Faults with displacement vary from small fractures a few decimeters long to abyssal fractures that pierce the earth’s crust and part of the upper mantle. The amplitude of normal faults reaches several kilometers, whereas strike-slip faults and overthrust nappes have amplitudes of dozens of kilometers (even several hundred, according to some investigators). Different stresses cause the formation of the various types of faults. Reverse faults, thrust faults, and overthrust nappes, which are usually combined with rock folding, form in zones of crustal contractions. In zones of crustal extension normal and extension faults occur. Zones with large numbers of normal faults are called rifts.

Movement along faults may be brief or may continue for prolonged periods of geological time. In the latter case it takes the form of distinct jolts accompanied by earthquakes. The cavities of faults often serve as routes for ascending hydrothermal solutions that form vein rocks.

REFERENCE

Belousov, V. V. Strukturnaia geologiia, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1971.

V. V. BELOUSOV

Fault

in geology, a tectonic fracture of the earth’s crust in which the walls of the fracture are shifted horizontally along its strike; the term “fault” may also refer to the displacement process. A distinction is made between a right fault, in which, when viewed in a plane, the relative displacement of the walls is clockwise, and a left fault, in which the movement of the walls is counterclockwise.

Faults range in length from several meters to many hundreds of kilometers, and the amplitude of displacement may vary from a few centimeters to many dozens, and probably hundreds, of kilometers. When the strike changes significantly, a fault may become a normal fault, a thrust fault, or a strike-slip fault. Characteristically pulsational, faulting only involves certain areas of the walls at one time. Displacement may occur along the fault line or in an adjacent zone as wide as several hundred kilometers, causing buckling and the formation of many fractural elements.

Faults are most characteristic of an area of folds. Large faults start forming during the orogenic period and develop as long as several tens of millions of years. The largest and most extensively studied faults are the San Andreas in California, the Talass-Fergana in the Tien-Shan, and the Great Glen of Scotland.

fault

[fȯlt] (electricity) A defect, such as an open circuit, short circuit, or ground, in a circuit, component, or line. Also known as electrical fault; faulting. (electronics) Any physical condition that causes a component of a data-processing system to fail in performance. (geology) A fracture in rock along which the adjacent rock surfaces are differentially displaced.

fault

A defect in the insulation or conductive capability of any component or device in an electric circuit, resulting in an interruption of current flow or in an unintended path of current flow of abnormal magnitude.

fault

1. Electronics a defect in a circuit, component, or line, such as a short circuit 2. Geology a fracture in the earth's crust resulting in the relative displacement and loss of continuity of the rocks on either side of it 3. Tennis squash badminton an invalid serve, such as one that lands outside a prescribed area 4. (in showjumping) a penalty mark given for failing to clear or refusing a fence, exceeding a time limit, etc. 5. Hunting an instance of the hounds losing the scent 6. at faulta. (of hounds) having temporarily lost the scent

fault

(programming)A manifestation of an error in software.A fault, if encountered, may cause a failure.

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(architecture)page fault.

fault

An error or failure. A software fault, also known as a "crash" or "abend," is when the program directs the computer to go outside of its restricted memory boundary. A hardware fault is a failure in one of the circuits. See fault detection, fault isolation and fault management. See also page fault.

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noun responsibility

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noun mistake

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noun failing

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noun misdeed

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verb criticize

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noun an imperfection of character

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noun something that mars the appearance or causes inadequacy or failure

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noun responsibility for an error or crime

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verb to find fault with

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noun a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention