Fault
(n.) Defect |
Fault
(n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence |
Fault
(n.) A moral failing |
Fault
(n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein. |
Fault
(n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam |
Fault
(n.) A lost scent |
Fault
(n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. |
Fault
(v. t.) To charge with a fault |
Fault
(v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture |
Fault
(v. i.) To err |
Fault-finder
(n.) One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them |
Fault-finding
(n.) The act of finding fault or blaming |
Pick-fault
(n.) One who seeks out faults. |
Spring
(v. i.) To leap |
Spring
(v. i.) To issue with speed and violence |
Spring
(v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
Spring
(v. i.) To fly back |
Spring
(v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface |
Spring
(v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth |
Spring
(v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor |
Spring
(v. i.) To grow |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to spring up |
Spring
(v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to explode |
Spring
(v. t.) To crack or split |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring |
Spring
(v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong |
Spring
(v. t.) To pass over by leaping |
Spring
(v. i.) A leap |
Spring
(v. i.) A flying back |
Spring
(v. i.) Elastic power or force. |
Spring
(v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. |
Spring
(v. i.) Any source of supply |
Spring
(v. i.) Any active power |
Spring
(v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source |
Spring
(v. i.) A race |
Spring
(v. i.) A youth |
Spring
(v. i.) A shoot |
Spring
(v. i.) That which causes one to spring |
Spring
(v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow |
Spring
(v. i.) The time of growth and progress |
Spring
(v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. |
Spring
(v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position |
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 |
leap
leaping
spring
saltation
bound
bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
| fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area), he served too many double faults |
| spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
leopard frog
spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog
spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
spring peeper
Hyla crucifer | a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring |
| spring chicken | a young chicken having tender meat |
| spring cankerworm | variably colored looper, larva of Paleacrita vernata |
| air cushion air spring | a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion |
| box spring | a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth |
coil spring
volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil |
| leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
set gun
spring gun | a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off |
| spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral |
| spring | a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed, the spring was broken |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
| spring mattress | a mattress containing springs in a rigid frame |
| fault | responsibility for a bad situation or event, it was John's fault |
give
spring
springiness | the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length |
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 |
| 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 |
green onion
spring onion
scallion | a young onion before the bulb has enlarged, eaten in salads |
egg roll
spring roll | minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried |
| spring water | water from a spring |
| spring | a point at which water issues forth |
| fault line | (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface |
| Hot Springs National Park | a national park in Arkansas featuring ancient hot springs, bathing is said to have therapeutic effects |
| Hot Springs | a town in west central Arkansas, a health resort noted for thermal springs |
| Colorado Springs | a city in east central Colorado on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, popular tourist center and site of the United States Air Force Academy |
| Saratoga Springs | a town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing |
| Rock Springs | a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border |
| 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 |
hot spring
thermal spring | a natural spring of water at a temperature ofF or above |
| 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 |
spring
fountain
outflow
outpouring
natural spring | a natural flow of ground water |
| 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 |
young person
youth
younker
spring chicken | a young person (especially a young man or boy) |
Carolina spring beauty
Claytonia caroliniana | similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers, eastern North America |
spring beauty
Clatonia lanceolata | small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm |
Virginia spring beauty
Claytonia virginica | small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, eastern North America |
spring cress
Cardamine bulbosa | small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America |
winter heath
spring heath
Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
spring squill
Scilla verna
sea onion | European scilla with small blue or purple flowers |
spring vetchling
spring vetch Lathyrus vernus | bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers |