Fault
noun
- 1.
- (a defect or imperfection, a break in the continuity of layers of rock, a misdeed or mistake, blame, an error in service) សេចក្ដីឆ្គាំឆ្គង, ក្រិតភាព, ភាពមិនគ្រប់លក្ខណ៍, សេចក្ដីខ្វះ It's my fault កំហុស, character fault គុណវិបត្ដិ, at fault ខុស, find fault រកកំហុស, geological fault សំរុត (ស្នាមប្រេះនៃស្រទាប់ព្រះធរណី)
Example: The mechanic could find no fault with the engine in my car. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) កំហុស បទល្មើស
verb — past tense: faulted ; past participle: faulted ; present participle: faulting ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) ប្រេះ (ស្រទាប់ព្រះធរណី)
- 2.
- ចាប់កំហុស, បង្ហាញកំហុស
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) ដាក់កំហុស
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- Defect; want; lack; default.
- 2.
- Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
- 3.
- A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
- 4.
- A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
- 5.
- In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
- 6.
- A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
- 7.
- Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
- 8.
- A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.
- 9.
- A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.
verb — past tense: faulted ; past participle: faulted ; present participle: faulting ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
- 1.
- blemish, defect, error, failure, flaw, imperfection, mistake, omission, shortcoming, vice, weakness
- 1.
- completeness, correctness, perfection