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faulttop: normal faultcenter: reverse faultbottom: strike-slip fault

fault

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.

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

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

at fault - deserving blame; "admitted to being at fault"guilty - responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"

Translations

有过错

fault

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