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fault - English dictionary definition

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  1. Fault  Defect; want; lack; default.
  2. Fault  Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
  3. Fault  A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
  4. Fault  A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
  5. Fault  In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
  6. Fault  A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
  7. Fault  Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
  8. Fault  To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
  9. Fault  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.
  10. Fault  To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.