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 |
short sale
short selling | sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) |
| short covering | the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale |
division partition
partitioning
segmentation
sectionalization
sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
whist
long whist
short whist | a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six |
| fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area), he served too many double faults |
shortstop
short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |
nap
catnap
cat sleep
forty winks
short sleep
snooze | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
| short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
blastocoel
blastocoele
blastocele
segmentation cavity
cleavage cavity | the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
short-horned grasshopper
acridid | grasshopper with short antennae |
| short | the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
short circuit
short | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
| short iron | an iron with a short shaft and pitched face, for hitting short high shots |
| short line | a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances |
short pants
shorts
trunks | trousers that end at or above the knee |
| short sleeve | a sleeve extending from the shoulder to the elbow |
stop bath
short-stop
short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
| 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 |
short bone
os breve | a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions |
short gastric artery
arteria gastrica breves
vasa brevis | several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach |
| short saphenous vein | a vein running from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
| short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
short list
shortlist | a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
note short letter
line billet | a short personal letter, drop me a line when you get there |
| short account | the aggregate of short sales on an open market |
arietta
short aria | a short aria |
short shrift
summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
| short order | an order for food that can be prepared quickly |
| 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 |
irascibility
short temper
spleen
quick temper | a feeling of resentful anger |
| chuck short ribs | between the chuck and the brisket |
| short ribs | cut of beef containing rib ends near the sternum |
| 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 |
Pepin
Pepin III
Pepin the Short | king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in (-) |