fault
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Is fault a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.Examples: "No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game."; "I told them the pie was still too hot. If they burn their tongues, that's their fault."; "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
2. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.Examples: "Despite all her faults, she’s a good person at heart."
3. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.Examples: "As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault."obsolete
4. A mistake or error.Examples: "It is a fault if the ball served drop in the net, or beyond the Service-Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court. A fault may not be taken. After a fault, the Server shall serve again from the same Court from which he served that fault."
5. A mistake or error.Examples: "If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults."
6. A mistake or error.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.Examples: "For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee."; ""There will a team over there [he waves towards York's Rail Operating Centre] like flight engineers, maintaining it and faulting it from a ROC rather than a van by the side of the track.""transitive
2. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.intransitive
3. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.intransitive
4. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary