Meaning Of Fault

n.

Defect; want; lack; default.
n.

Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
n.

A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
n.

A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
n.

In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
n.

A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
n.

Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
v. t.

To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
v. t.

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.
v. i.

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.