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noun
- a fault
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
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- Initialism of fault tree analysis.
- (economics) Initialism of free trade agreement.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of flight test article (such as a test aircraft, a prototype).
- (economics) Initialism of free trade area.
- Initialism of failure to agree.
- Initialism of failure to abate.
- Initialism of failure to appear.
- (computing) Initialism of filetype association.
- Initialism of face-threatening act.
- Initialism of failure to attend.
adj
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- A fault or malfunction.
- The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
- (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
- a failing or deficiency
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- an imperfection in a bodily system
- an imperfection in an object or machine
verb
- (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
- (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
- (military) To join the enemy army.
- (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
- desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
adj
- (engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
- Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
- Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
- Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
- (archaeology, of rocks, minerals, etc) Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
- (informal, proscribed, of diabetes) Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
- having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
- lacking warmth and generosity of spirit
- (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
noun
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- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- Extremely important.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
noun
noun
- A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
- (US, dialect) A winkle
- A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
- A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
- A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
- a minor difficulty
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
verb
- (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
- (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
- (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make wrinkled or creased
- become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
verb
- find a flaw in
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
noun
- Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
- Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
- The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
- (in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
- (countable) An instance of reworking.
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noun
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- inadvertent incorrectness
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
noun
- Initialism of error correction.
- (electronics) Initialism of edge combiner.
- Initialism of emergency contraception
- (anatomy) Initialism of entorhinal cortex.
- Initialism of earth closet.
- (uncountable) Initialism of eye contact.
- (uncountable, geology, astronomy) Initialism of enstatite chondrite.
- (uncountable, chemistry) Initialism of ethylene carbonate.
- (countable, physics) Initialism of electron capture.
- an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
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adj
- without fault or error
- completely neat and clean
- free from stain or blemish
- (specifically) Of a book, manuscript, etc.: having no textual errors.
- Containing no mistakes.
- Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.
- (botany, zoology, especially entomology) Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings.
- (Roman Catholicism) Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled.
verb
noun
- (rare, uncountable) A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
- (countable, architecture) A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
- (countable) Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
- (countable, Northern England, architecture) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
- (countable) A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
- (countable, archery, historical) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
- an angry dispute
- an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges
noun
- (mining) A fault.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
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- Faulty or defective.
- Inappropriate or improper.
- Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
noun
verb
- acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- (intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.
- (intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends
noun
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- A storm of short duration.
- (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
- (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- defect or weakness in a person's character
- an imperfection in an object or machine
- an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness
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- (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
- attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
- (transitive) To attribute or credit to.
- (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
- (transitive) To take into account.
- (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.
- attribute or credit to
verb
noun
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
noun
- a fault
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
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- Initialism of fault tree analysis.
- (economics) Initialism of free trade agreement.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of flight test article (such as a test aircraft, a prototype).
- (economics) Initialism of free trade area.
- Initialism of failure to agree.
- Initialism of failure to abate.
- Initialism of failure to appear.
- (computing) Initialism of filetype association.
- Initialism of face-threatening act.
- Initialism of failure to attend.
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- A fault or malfunction.
- The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
- (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
- a failing or deficiency
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- an imperfection in a bodily system
- an imperfection in an object or machine
verb
- (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
- (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
- (military) To join the enemy army.
- (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
- desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
noun
- A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
- (US, dialect) A winkle
- A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
- A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
- A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
- a minor difficulty
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
verb
- (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
- (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
- (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make wrinkled or creased
- become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
noun
- Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
- Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
- The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
- (in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
- (countable) An instance of reworking.
verb
noun
- Initialism of error correction.
- (electronics) Initialism of edge combiner.
- Initialism of emergency contraception
- (anatomy) Initialism of entorhinal cortex.
- Initialism of earth closet.
- (uncountable) Initialism of eye contact.
- (uncountable, geology, astronomy) Initialism of enstatite chondrite.
- (uncountable, chemistry) Initialism of ethylene carbonate.
- (countable, physics) Initialism of electron capture.
- an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
adj
name
noun
- (mining) A fault.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
verb
noun
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- A storm of short duration.
- (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
- (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- defect or weakness in a person's character
- an imperfection in an object or machine
- an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness
verb
noun
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
verb
- find a flaw in
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
noun
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- inadvertent incorrectness
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
verb
noun
- (rare, uncountable) A propensity to quarrel; quarrelsomeness.
- (countable, architecture) A diamond- or square-shaped piece of glass forming part of a lattice window.
- (countable) Often preceded by a form of to have: a basis or ground of dispute or objection; a complaint; also, a feeling or situation of ill will and unhappiness caused by this.
- (countable, Northern England, architecture) A square tile; a quarry tile; (uncountable) such tiles collectively.
- (countable) A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
- (countable, archery, historical) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow or an arbalest (“a late, large type of crossbow”), traditionally with the head square in its cross section.
- an angry dispute
- an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges
verb
- acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- (intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.
- (intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends
verb
- (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
- attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
- (transitive) To attribute or credit to.
- (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
- (transitive) To take into account.
- (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.
- attribute or credit to
verb
adj
- (engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
- Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
- Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
- Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
- (archaeology, of rocks, minerals, etc) Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
- (informal, proscribed, of diabetes) Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
- having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
- lacking warmth and generosity of spirit
- (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
noun
verb
adj
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- Extremely important.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
- without fault or error
- completely neat and clean
- free from stain or blemish
- (specifically) Of a book, manuscript, etc.: having no textual errors.
- Containing no mistakes.
- Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.
- (botany, zoology, especially entomology) Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings.
- (Roman Catholicism) Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled.
adj
- Faulty or defective.
- Inappropriate or improper.
- Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules