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failure
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman failer, from Old French faillir (“to fail”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada, General American) IPA(key): /?fe?l.j?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fe?l.j?/
Noun
failure (countable and uncountable, plural failures)
- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
- Bankruptcy.
Synonyms
- (person incapable of success): loser
Antonyms
- (state or condition): success, triumph
Derived terms
- ground failure
- power failure
Related terms
- fail
Translations
failure From the web:
- what failure means
- what failure teaches you
- what failure looks like
- what failure to thrive means
- what failures have you experienced
- what failure is not
- what failure came out of deinstitutionalization
- what failures have the un has
fumble
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?mb?l/
- Rhymes: -?mb?l
Etymology 1
Late Middle English, from Low German fommeln or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare Old Norse fálma, Swedish fumla, Danish fumle, German fummeln.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *f?lijan (“to feel”).
Verb
fumble (third-person singular simple present fumbles, present participle fumbling, simple past and past participle fumbled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.}}
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
Synonyms
- (grope awkwardly): grubble, poke; see also Thesaurus:feel around
Translations
Noun
fumble (plural fumbles)
- (sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
Translations
Etymology 2
Blend of fool +? crumble.
Noun
fumble (plural fumbles)
- (Britain) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
Further reading
- fumble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
fumble From the web:
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- what fumble means in spanish
- fumble what does it means
- what does fumble the bag mean
- what's a fumble in football
- what does fumble
- what does fumble mean
- what does fumble your heart mean
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