(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.
Infallible
Definition:
(a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
(a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.
(a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) I asked if that would not make life easier, since it removed any issue of the author's infallibility?
(3) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible."
(4) The bleeding time is not an infallible indication of aspirin or other non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs platelet defect.
(5) Although these criteria are helpful in most instances, they are not infallible.
(6) Countless Americans believe in a purity and infallibility of our right to bear arms, and therefore are quick to find fault with those who misuse the right.
(7) However, these physiologic measurements are not infallible; their accuracy is largely dependent on the careful set-up and use of the measuring instruments.
(8) Testing hearing in baby clinics was easy to implement and economical but not infallible.
(9) The electrocardiogram was invaluable, though by no means infallible.
(10) Current imaging techniques are not infallible and cannot confer an absolute sense of security when seeming to indicate a nonextruded protruding disk.
(11) The results suggest that, although far from infallible, CA 125 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer.
(12) People have come to believe that doctors should never make mistakes and courts have reinforced this absurd requirement of infallibility by punishing breaches with settlements way out of proportion to actual damages".
(13) We conclude that a long acting glucocorticoid is useful in the management of menstrual abnormalities in adolescent patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have attained their adult height, and that monitoring the concentration of serum T in them is a valuable but not infallible procedure for assessing the effectiveness of therapy.
(14) He continued to write about art, but related it more closely to his personal experience, and though he never ceased to believe in the perfectibility of society, he edged towards an understanding of Marxism as an analytical tool rather than an infallible cure for the ills of the world.
(15) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible.
(16) He has a vast and devoted following of people who do not question his infallibility.
(17) Our knowledge of the wrist is incomplete, and our diagnostic tools are not infallible, but we must continue to try to sort out these difficult wrist problems.
(18) Although there is no infallible method of avoiding interpretive errors it is suggested that the development of good viewing habits, including an orderly and systematic appraisal of each film, coupled with a physiologically oriented approach to film interpretation will reduce mistakes significantly.
(19) Even then, it was obvious that Facetti had a prodigious knowledge of art history and an infallible instinct for the way a single image might capture the essence of a book.
(20) The first is that King and Trichet, eminent though they may be, are not infallible.