Meaning of FAULT in English

Defect; want; lack; default.

Use in sentences of FAULT

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