(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.
Tennis
Definition:
(n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
(v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The calf pain prodrome of "tennis leg" requires rest and then a stretching program.
(2) I’ve been in tennis for 10 years and he has always given 100%.
(3) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
(4) At each age level the boys consistently performed better than the girls in four of the six motor tests (catching, standing long jump, tennis ball throw and speed run).
(5) The possibility of a connection between grip tightness during and after the impact phase and the occurrence of the well-known "tennis elbow" is also discussed.
(6) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
(7) Responding to a question from host Karl Stefanovic about Kyrgios’s behaviour at Wimbledon and Tomic’s attack on Tennis Australia , which led to him being dumped from the Davis Cup team, Fraser said: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(8) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(9) The party was founded to fight for a better deal for thousands of local co-operatives during the first world war, and in the years afterwards elected a handful of MPs (including Sam Perry, the father of Fred Perry the tennis champion).
(10) As Johanna Konta contemplates the next stage of her wide-reaching tennis journey and a possible place in the fourth round of the US Open, she recalls in a quiet moment how it all started, and how she might never have played the game at all but for the fact there were tennis courts next to her school.
(11) We look forward to many more years of working with Maria.” Sharapova, who has been provisionally banned while the International tennis Federation decides her fate, has thanked her fans for their support and vowed to return to the game.
(12) The start of 2016 has seen a worldwide focus on alleged match-fixing in tennis,” said the report.
(13) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
(14) As a result she won’t be watching her son in the final because she has flown back to prepare Britain’s women’s tennis team for the Federation Cup, starting in Budapest on Wednesday.
(15) Participation in vigorous sports activities, such as jogging, swimming, tennis, etc., helps to protect against the development of hypertension, even when other predisposing factors are present.
(16) Last week ITV snatched the rights to the French Open tennis tournament , as the BBC looks to reduce what it spends on sport as part of the "Delivering Quality First" cost-cutting initiative.
(17) If the scoreline has a pleasing symmetry, the tennis was gruesome to watch – at least from the Luxembourg bench, where their coach, the human rights lawyer on his holidays, Jacques Radoux, looked as if he had just been asked to defend Rebekah Brooks.
(18) There is a bit of tennis left in this tie, with Australia awaiting in the semi-final following their comeback win against Kazakhstan.
(19) I know that he’s playing the tennis of his life in last 15 months.
(20) Today it is a Russian banker paying for a couple of sets of tennis with the PM and the mayor of London.