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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
fault From the web:
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massif
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French massif, from Middle French massif, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæ?si?f/, /?mæs?f/
- Rhymes: -i?f
Noun
massif (plural massifs)
- A principal mountain mass.
- A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists
- 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:
- The southern borders of these states are keyed to the same horizontal projection, one surveyed by the frontier planter William Byrd in 1728, while the rivers forming their northern extents fall back just opposite each other from the flanks of the Appalachian massif.
- 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:
Translations
French
Etymology
masse (“mass”) +? -if
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.sif/
Noun
massif m (plural massifs)
- massif
Adjective
massif (feminine singular massive, masculine plural massifs, feminine plural massives)
- massive
Derived terms
- arme de destruction massive
- cours en ligne ouvert et massif
- nom massif
Further reading
- “massif” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- massiff, massiffe, massyf
Etymology
From Middle French massif; equivalent to mass +? -if.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?masif/
Adjective
massif
- (Late Middle English) weighty, massy, weighing very much.
- (Late Middle English, rare) massive, huge, enormous.
- (Late Middle English, rare) not sharp, unsharpened, coarse.
Related terms
- massy
Descendants
- English: massive
- Scots: massive (obsolete)
References
- “mass??f, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.
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