Definitions for the word "fault" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Defect; want; lack; default.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
1 defect or imperfection of character, structure, appearance, etc. 2 responsibility for wrongdoing, error, etc. (your own fault). 3 break in an electric circuit. 4 transgression, offence. 5 a tennis etc. Incorrect service. B (in showjumping) penalty for error. 6 break in rock strata. v. 1 find fault with; blame. 2 geol. A break the continuity of (strata). B show a fault. at fault guilty; to blame. Find fault (often foll. By with) criticize; complain. To a fault excessively (generous to a fault). [latin fallo deceive]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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