mistake error fault | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention, he made a bad mistake, she was quick to point out my errors, I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults |
double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point |
fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area), he served too many double faults |
construction | drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem, the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem |
construction building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
road construction | the construction of roads |
construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
structure construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
fault | responsibility for a bad situation or event, it was John's fault |
demerit fault | the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection, they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel, he knew his own faults much better than she did |
construction mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
construction grammatical construction expression | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit, I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner |
construction twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
fault | (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.), it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it |
construction industry housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
fault line | (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface |
Denali Fault | a major open geological fault in Alaska |
fault faulting geological fault shift fracture break | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other, they built it right over a geological fault, he studied the faulting of the earth's crust |
inclined fault | a geological fault in which one side is above the other |
normal fault gravity fault common fault | an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall |
San Andreas Fault | a major geological fault in California, runs from San Diego to San Francisco, the source of serious earthquakes |
strike-slip fault | a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally |
thrust fault overthrust fault reverse fault | a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression |
construction worker hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
no fault insurance no fault automobile insurance | a system of automobile insurance where a party who is injured in an automobile accident recovers damages up to a specific amount against his own insurance company regardless of who was responsible for the accident, the amount of litigation resulting from minor accidents is reduced by no fault insurance |
defect fault flaw | an imperfection in an object or machine, a flaw caused the crystal to shatter, if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer |
construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
blame fault | put or pin the blame on |
blame find fault a pick | harass with constant criticism, Don't always pick on your little brother |
at fault | deserving blame, admitted to being at fault |
excessively overly to a fault too | to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits, too big |