OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17254

fault

/fɔːlt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
culpa
Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
I told them the pie was still too hot. If they burn their tongues, that's their fault.
No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game.
falta
A mistake or error.
It is a fault if the ball served drop in the net, or beyond the Service-Line, or if it drop out of Court, or in the wrong Court. A fault may not be taken. After a fault, the Server…
falla
A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.
That might explain why the last three major earthquakes occurred not at San Andreas faults, where it would seem natural to expect them, but in both adjacent fault groups.
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