What's the difference between fauld and fault?

Fauld


Definition:

  • (n.) The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Faulds praised Alex Salmond, the Scottish National party first minister.
  • (2) Narrated by Faulds, the programme went under the name of The Long, Long Trail.
  • (3) For both Faulds and his young leader this was probably a lucky escape: though on the right of the Labour party on many ideological issues, Faulds was his own man and did not take kindly to pagers, spin doctors or other means of modern thought control.
  • (4) First elected for Smethwick, scene of a famous conflict with racism, in 1966, Faulds was fiercely anti-racist, among whom he sometimes numbered Zionists.
  • (5) Not quite in the Robeson league, the Faulds voice was wonderful then, and remained so to the end.
  • (6) Its chairman, Jim Faulds, who accused the government of "sacrificing" the society, confirmed that the mutuals Nationwide and Britannia, along with two banks, rumoured to be HSBC and Barclays, had been in talks with the Financial Services Authority about a buyout.
  • (7) Yet Faulds, who switched to safer Warley in 1974, was not a man with whom to enter the political jungle.
  • (8) Andrew Matthew William Faulds, politician and actor, born March 1 1923; died May 31 2000
  • (9) Ultrafresh (Faulding) was used as mouth care agent for half the subjects and normal saline was used for the other half.
  • (10) How the fingerprints slowly became standardized involves many persons, including Nathaniel Grew, Johannes Purkinje, William Herschel, Henry Faulds, Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Mark Twain, Juan Vucetich, Edward Henry, and J. Edgar Hoover.
  • (11) When Andrew Faulds called a Tory opponent "an honourable shit" (1988) or declared that Norman St John Stevas "lacked the capacity to put a bun in anyone's oven" (when the House was discussing abortion) there was not much doubt as to whom said exactly what.
  • (12) Faulds said that if the £26m writedown in its commercial property investments was put to one side, the society was due to make a modest profit this year and it was still a healthy, viable business.
  • (13) Darling, under intense criticism about this decision from Faulds, the Scottish government and opposition MPs, insisted that the FSA and the Treasury had been working intensively to keep the building society in business.
  • (14) The implication that the Dunfermline was in effect insolvent was rejected by Faulds, who claimed the Treasury repeatedly ignored his requests for direct talks on the society's future.
  • (15) Andrew Faulds, the unmistakably loud and thespian Labour backbencher, who has died aged 77, was a House of Commons character who never managed to live up to the role he envisaged for himself.
  • (16) Tall, handsome and imposing, Faulds was a man of deeply-held passions, vocally pro-Arab and pro-European throughout his career.
  • (17) Married to Bunty Whitfield in 1945 (they had one daughter), Faulds was famous around Westminster as a ladies man, happy to flaunt a young conquest in front of MPs whose private lives were quieter.
  • (18) Andrew Faulds was born in what was then Tanganyika, now Tanzania, the son of Matthew Faulds, a Presbyterian missionary.
  • (19) The SNP leader "has been absolutely magnificent without looking for any political gain", Faulds told the BBC.
  • (20) Uncritical in his affections, fond of good company and foreign trips, Faulds was also capable of being offensive to Margaret Thatcher as few Labour men felt able to be, not least Neil Kinnock.

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.

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