fault

noun

1. Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.

   “No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game.”

   “I told them the pie was still too hot. If they burn their tongues, that's their fault.”

   “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

   “A police official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that a note found at the scene addressed to Ms. Spade's 13-year-old daughter indicated, among other things, that what had happened was not the child’s fault.”

   “How many more innocent people and kids gotta get killed by these police, man? / And then it's always the victim's fault”

2. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.

   “Despite all her faults, she’s a good person at heart.”

3. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.

   “You're still young, that's your fault.”

4. A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.

   “Cork taint is one of the most recognizable wine faults.”

   “The time of greatest prevalence of this microörganism, August and September, agreed in general with the occurrence of this cheese fault. Not a single Cheddar cheese was found which turned blue, and as the iron content of Cheddar cheese was low the author regards this as supporting his conclusion that iron is the cause of the fault.”

   “No common wine fault is likely to cause serious health problems but you won't want to take the tasting much further if the wine smells faulty.”

5. (obsolete)A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.

   “As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault.”

6. A mistake or error.
7. A mistake or error.

   “It is a fault if the ball served drop in the net, or beyond the Service-Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court. A fault may not be taken. After a fault, the Server shall serve again from the same Court from which he served that fault.”

8. A mistake or error.

   “If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults.”

9. A mistake or error.
10. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.

    “That might explain why the last three major earthquakes occurred not at San Andreas faults, where it would seem natural to expect them, but in both adjacent fault groups.”

11. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.
12. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.

    “Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.”

13. A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.
14. (obsolete)want; lack; absence

    “one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend”

verb

1. (transitive)To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

   “For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.”

   “"There will a team over there [he waves towards York's Rail Operating Centre] like flight engineers, maintaining it and faulting it from a ROC rather than a van by the side of the track."”

2. (intransitive)To fracture.
3. (intransitive)To commit a mistake or error.
4. (intransitive)To undergo a page fault.