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crevice
English
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??v?s/
Noun
crevice (plural crevices)
- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
- 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West
- I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
Translations
Verb
crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)
- To crack; to flaw.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
References
- crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- crevice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search
Old French
Alternative forms
- crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche
Etymology
From either Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from Old High German krebiz (“edible crustacean, crab”) (German Krebs (“crab”)), from the same source. Cognate with Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”).
Noun
crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)
- crayfish, crawfish
Descendants
- Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
- French: écrevisse
- ? Middle Dutch: crevetse
- ? Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
- English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)
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fault
English
Etymology
From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fall? (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse l?str (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??lt/, /f?lt/
- (US) IPA(key): /f?lt/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /f?lt/
- Rhymes: -??lt
Noun
fault (plural faults)
- A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
- A mistake or error.
- A weakness of character; a failing.
- A minor offense.
- Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
- (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
- (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
- (tennis) An illegal serve.
- (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
- (obsolete) want; lack
- (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defect
Hyponyms
(seismology):
- normal fault
- reverse fault
- strike-slip fault
- thrust fault
- transform fault
Derived terms
Related terms
- default
Translations
Verb
fault (third-person singular simple present faults, present participle faulting, simple past and past participle faulted)
- (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
- a. 1723, unknown author, The Devonshire Nymph
- For that, says he, I ne'er will fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
- a. 1723, unknown author, The Devonshire Nymph
- (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
- (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
- (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.
- 2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration
- When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.
- 2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration
Translations
References
French
Verb
fault
- Obsolete spelling of faut (third-person singular present indicative of falloir)
German
Verb
fault
- inflection of faulen:
- second-person plural present
- third-person singular present
- plural imperative
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