faultとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /fɔːlt/, /fɒlt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔlt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /fɑlt/
• 韻: -ɔːlt

名詞

fault (複数形 faults)

1. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault.

2. A mistake or error.

   No! This is my fault, not yours.

3. A weakness of character; a failing.

   Despite for all her faults, she’s a good person at heart.

4. A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which subjects a person or thing to increased risk of danger.

   You're still young, that's your fault.

   • 1970, Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman, Father and Son.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

5. A minor offense.
6. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.

   The fault lies with you.

   • 2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich; Vanessa Friedman; Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     A police official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that a note found at the scene addressed to Ms. [Kate] Spade's 13-year-old daughter indicated, among other things, that what had happened was not the child’s fault.

7. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
8. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam^[1].

   slate fault  dirt fault

9. (tennis) An illegal serve.
10. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
11. (obsolete) want; lack
    • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

      one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend

12. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
    • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC:

      Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:defect

下位語

(seismology):

• normal fault
• reverse fault
• strike-slip fault
• thrust fault
• transform fault

派生語

関連する語

• default

動詞

fault (三人称単数 現在形 faults, 現在分詞 faulting, 過去形および過去分詞形 faulted)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
3. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
4. (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.

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