| 单词 | faulting |
| 释义 | faulting (once / 67156 pages) n WORD FAMILY faulting: faultings+/fault: faulted, faulting, faultless, faults, faulty/faultless: faultlessly, faultlessness/faulty: faultier, faultiest, faultily, faultiness USAGE EXAMPLESGarner persists in faulting the students for not acting pragmatically; these were not “earth-shattering” offenses, so why not deal with them swiftly, then and there? The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) But some critics on Thursday were faulting the proposal for not ordering more water-savings by farms as well. Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) Layne made his comments faulting board members at the forum organized by the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) n (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other he studied the faulting of the earth's crust Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift Denali Fault a major open geological fault in Alaska San Andreas Faulta major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes inclined fault a geological fault in which one side is above the other strike-slip faulta geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally common fault, gravity fault, normal faultan inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall overthrust fault, reverse fault, thrust faulta geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure a long narrow opening |
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