Dictionary entry

Faulty

Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːlti/

Pronunciation

/ˈfɔːlti/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ချွတ်ယွင်းသော။

Definition

fault / fↄ:lt / n ၁။ [C] အမွား။ အျပစ္အနာအဆာ။ I like him in spite of all his faults. ❍ The book's virtues far outweigh its faults. ❍ a major fault in/of the machine's design ❍ a structural/an electrical fault. ❍ MISTAKE n ၂။ [U] အမွား။ အျပစ္။ တာဝန္။ ‘Whose fault was it?’ ‘Mine, I'm afraid. ’ ❍ It's all/entirely his fault. ❍ The fault really lies with the leadership of the movement. ၃။ [C] စေပးေဘာအမွား။ She has served seven double faults in this set. ၄။ [C] ( techn ) (ကမ႓ာေျမလႊာရိွ) ျပတ္ေရြ႕ ေၾကာင္း။ earthquakes along the San Andreas fault. v အျပစ္ေျပာသည္။ No one could fault his performance. ❏ at fault [ IDM ] အျပစ္ရိွသည္။ It is the system which is at fault. ❏ fault-finding n [U] ( usu derog ) အျပစ္ရွာျခင္း။ ❏ faultless adj ေျပာစရာမရိွေသာ။ Their teamwork was faultless. ❏ faultlessly adv ေကာင္းေကာင္းမြန္မြန္။ မခြၽတ္ မယြင္း။ The engine performed faultlessly. ❏ faulty adj ခြၽတ္ယြင္းေသာ။ အျပစ္အနာအဆာမ်ားရိွေသာ။ a faulty switch ❍ faulty workmanship ❍ faulty instructions. ❏ to a fault [ IDM ] တရားလြန္။ အလြန္အကြၽံ။ She is generous to a fault.

Examples

  1. [be someone’s fault] : It’s my fault – I forgot to give him the message.
  2. [be someone’s fault (that)] : It’s not my fault that we’re late.
  3. [be someone’s own fault] : If you didn’t get enough sleep
  4. it’s your own fault.
  5. [be all someone’s fault] : We’ve missed the plane and it’s all your fault!
  6. [be someone’s fault for doing something] : It was partly the teacher’s fault for not explaining things clearly enough.
  7. [through no fault of your own] : He seems to have lost the job through no fault of his own.
  8. [the fault lies with] : If a child does not attend school
  9. the fault lies with the parent.
  10. The book’s main fault is that it is too long.
  11. [for all something’s faults] : For all its faults
  12. it is still the best small car on the market.
  13. [fault in] : An engineer was called out to repair a fault in the alarm system.
  14. [an electrical/mechanical/technical fault] : The fire was caused by an electrical fault.
  15. She has her faults
  16. but on the whole she’s very nice.
  17. [for all someone’s faults] : For all his faults
  18. he’s been a very good friend to me.
  19. Clothes with faults are sold off cheaply through market stalls.
  20. A geological fault
  21. The San Andreas Fault