What's the difference between culprit and fault?

Culprit


Definition:

  • (p. p.) One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
  • (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
  • (2) If the leavers are seeking a culprit, they need only look in the mirror.
  • (3) In the end, the culprit is Burma because it is Burma where there is an issue,” Abbott said.
  • (4) But no one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
  • (5) The mean age was 50 years, male patients were more frequent, the predominant area of infarct was anterior wall and more frequently the "culprit" coronary was the left anterior descendent.
  • (6) Since DES has been proven a culprit in offspring malformations, the burden of proof that oral contraceptives in general do not provoke similar offspring changes is on the health community.
  • (7) Previously the culprit had pressed her face into the ground, so that she aspirated particles of soil.
  • (8) In 3 cases with single vessel disease of the LAD, inferior wall of the basis showed reduced uptake of BMIPP despite the location of the culprit lesion.
  • (9) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
  • (10) "Not just because it's wrong to expect officers to endure profanities, but it's also because of the experience of the culprits.
  • (11) The culprits can be easily identified in a dysfunctional Greece as well as among the dogmatists dominating the country's eurozone creditors.
  • (12) Ischemic electrocardiographic changes were more sensitive in predicting LV dysfunction with culprit lesion location in the left anterior descending or right coronary artery.
  • (13) Give it back.” A major culprit is de-industrialisation.
  • (14) Many entertainment trades have blamed the casting of Michael Fassbender in the titular role as the main culprit in the film’s failure to cross over.
  • (15) The origin of the hackers is still unknown, although North Korea remains a possible culprit despite denying it was behind the sophisticated attack that would have challenged even government cyber-defences.
  • (16) She puts this down to the common culprits: stress, depression and the mojo-sapping anxieties of the age of austerity.
  • (17) Sweet suspects another culprit in the gendered, highly sexist toy market is the male dominance at the top of toy and advertising companies, and in Pink and Blue, Paoletti suggests another intriguing idea: that the rise of ultrasounds during pregnancy has contributed to the triumph of gendered colour codes.
  • (18) "Culprit" parathyroid glands are those typically enlarged and histologically abnormal glands that are credited with causing PHP in a given patient.
  • (19) But the culprit cannot have sought simply to damage a wall or cause death and injury.
  • (20) When snipers killed more than 50 protesters and wounded 1,000 on the Friday of Dignity , it was the young who arrested the culprits; not one was attacked or injured, despite the anger and the blood that had flowed in the streets.

Fault


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (2) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (3) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (4) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
  • (5) Whatever their other faults, most Republicans running for office this year do not share Trump’s unwillingness to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.
  • (6) There could be no faulting the atmosphere or the football drama.
  • (7) People think it must be your fault that you’re in this position; it isn’t.
  • (8) Defense Mechanism Test applied to a subgroup of 20 patients suggested that high perceptual defense may be related to injury occurrence in patients at fault for the accident.
  • (9) Yes, if it helps kill the idea that autism is somebody's "fault".
  • (10) The SEM photographs demonstrated the faults which can be eliminated by the use of a stereomicroscope and showed also those which derive from the physical and chemical properties of the amalgam.
  • (11) He said the incident happened after Hookem told Woolfe it was his own fault he did not get his nomination papers in on time.
  • (12) The result is a very satisfactory isolation of the wound, eliminating faults in aseptic technique but requiring fresh sterilisation for each new procedure.
  • (13) Another issue that deserves attention is the impact on future generations, because biological faults introduced by the technique could be handed down from one generation to the next.
  • (14) I’m not someone to gloss over the BBC’s faults, problems or challenges – I see it as part of my job to identify and pursue them.
  • (15) Despite all these fault lines, China is not going to collapse; it is far too resilient for that.
  • (16) Proper provision of ground-fault circuit interrupter protection, particularly at temporary work sites, could have prevented most of the deaths from 110-volt AC.
  • (17) These achievements, and faults, will find stark contrast with Trump’s administration; certainly Trump’s nominations for key positions in his cabinet that relate to climate change have prompted alarm by experts and campaigners.
  • (18) Cameron did give ground by saying that "no fault dismissal" would only apply to micro companies and not to every employer in the country.
  • (19) The failures were mostly related to technical faults.
  • (20) These more complex units call for new methods of fault detection and diagnosis.