Currently the need for a revision is the most commonly used definition of a failed operation.
I set out the failed supper.
Rebleeders who did not receive a second injection with the same solution were defined as failed cases.
The line number containing the failed cross-reference is renumbered and the line number in the error report is the new line number.
When a disk fails, objects are re-replicated on remaining disks and the system becomes fault-tolerant again with replacing the failed disk.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►an attempted/abortive/failed coup
(=one that did not succeed)· There was an attempted coup against Togo’s military dictator.
►a failed/broken marriage
· After two failed marriages, she was not willing to risk marrying again.
►failed to materialize
The money we had been promised failed to materialize.
►signally failed
The government has signally failed to deal with the problem.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►attempt
· Past failed attempts at market and product development.· And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way.
►coup
· It was the worst violence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991.· President Gamul Abdel Nasser had dissolved the organization after a failed coup attempt in Alexandria in which he claimed it was involved.
►marriage
· And the secret past of stony -faced consultant Julian Chapman emerges in the shape of a failed marriage and a drink problem.· A failed marriage is one of those unconsidered trifles he might expect to sniff out.· There followed three more failed marriages, going to college, teaching and becoming a writer.· Two failed marriages didn't put me off.· He knew she had a failed marriage with a strange son, Steve.· She then proceeded to recite a bitter list of all the failed marriages which we had in our midst or knew of.· But the greatest coup of all was engineering publication of her side of the story of her failed marriage.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounfailfailurefailingadjectivefailedunfailingverbfailadverbunfaillingly
a failed actor/writer etc someone who wanted to be an actor etc but was unsuccessful