Word Meaning

fault definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for fault

- A bad part
- Defect or failing
- Flaw
- Mistake
- Tennis serve mishap