(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.
Nether
Definition:
(a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
Example Sentences:
(1) That shows the level of support for us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Retired health manager Margaret Alexander, pictured with husband Gordon: ‘Why can’t our government find the money?’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Up the road at the village of Nether Stowey, retired health managers Gordon and Margaret Alexander, 84 and 78 respectively, were admiring the flowers outside Coleridge’s old cottage .
(2) Nether glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity nor [125I]iodoglucagon binding could be detected in the poorly differentiated hepatomas.
(3) By this research the percentage of school-children living in a mainly rural district in Nether Saxony whose carriage is endangered is to be stated and besides that it is to be examined whether and how far orthopedic training, practised by special nurses for physical training, can help to improve their carriage.
(4) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
(5) I don't take much notice: as a frontline sergeant in a busy multicultural town in the nether regions of England, there isn't anywhere worse they can put me, and nothing they do will change the nature of my work.
(6) There were other people on the beach, including picnicking families, but it was not packed, and they were mainly in the water, with their nether regions hidden.
(7) He shows us its hollowed-out nether regions and parson’s nose in a deliberately obscene way.
(8) Nearest station to Nether Stowey is Bridgwater – take the bus to Williton and Minehead.
(9) It is nether possible nor desirable for analysis to adopt the neutral attitudes and techniques of the natural science observer.
(10) (Nether Alderley, Cheshire) Professor Alistair Stanyer Burns.
(11) Recently, as the morning sun stretched towards my bedroom window, my mind became stranded in that nether world between sleep and waking.
(12) The French have always suspected we were a treacherous bunch, but they've just received a poke with a sharp stick to the vinous nether regions.
(13) Nether the trust nor its subsidiaries are registered by the National Secretariat for Non-Governmental Organisations, a prerequisite for any such project.
(14) On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip.
(15) You've just had a baby and 28 stitches in your nethers?
(16) Nether Stowey butcher Andrew Pope, who lives on a farm next door to the site, was more relaxed.
(17) OS Map: Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales: southern & western areas Coleridge's cottage to Wordsworth's house Somerset Quantock Hills at Coleridge Way nature walk, Nether Stowey, Somerset.
(18) Nether thrombosis nor stenosis of the renal veins and the inferior vena cava was present.
(19) Terkel disliked this nether region beneath the skyscrapers.
(20) Have a look at Danny's website - it's top notch ... and I'm not just saying that because he's blowing smoke up my nether regions.