0 a mistake, especially something for which you are to blame:
It's not my fault she didn't come!
The fault was/lay with the organizers, who failed to make the necessary arrangements for dealing with so many people.
Through no fault of his own, he spent a week locked up in jail.
He has many faults, but dishonesty isn't one of them.
An electrical fault caused the fire.
For all the faults in our education system, it is still better than that in many other countries.
Her doctor was at fault for/in not sending her straight to a specialist.
1 a crack in the earth's surface where the rock has divided into two parts that move against each other:
Surveyors say the fault line is capable of generating a major earthquake once in a hundred years.
3 to hit a fault in tennis and other similar games:
That's the fourth serve he's faulted on today.
4 a quality in a person that shows that the person is not perfect, or a condition of something that shows that it is not working perfectly:
5 responsibility for a mistake or for having done something wrong:
6 a crack in the earth’s surface where the rock is divided into two parts that can move against each other in an earthquake (= a sudden, violent movement of the earth’s surface)
7 to blame someone:
9 the fact of being responsible for something bad that happens:
10 relating to legal processes, insurance claims, etc. in which it is not necessary to decide who is responsible for a bad situation:
The electrician has diagnosed a fault in the wiring.
With all her faults, she's still a really good friend.
These theological and philosophical fault-lines, however, remain largely unmapped.
Note that this is in contrast to most traditional fault modeling approaches where the fault is represented as an additive or a multiplicative time-dependent quantity.
However, it is also clear that the rural-urban fault line will not be removed or redrawn at least within the foreseeable future.
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