Fault vs. Trouble

A character weakness, especially a minor one.

difficulty or problems

Something that impairs or detracts from physical perfection; a defect.

public unrest or disorder

A mistake; an error

cause distress or anxiety to

A minor offense or misdeed

A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need

Responsibility for a mistake or an offense; culpability.

A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation

(Geology) A fracture in the continuity of a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust, in which adjacent surfaces are displaced relative to one another and parallel to the plane of fracture. Also called shift.

A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty

(Electronics) A defect in a circuit or wiring caused by imperfect connections, poor insulation, grounding, or shorting.

Effort, especially when inconvenient or bothersome

(Sports) A service of the ball that violates the rules in tennis and similar games.

A condition of pain, disease, or malfunction

(Archaic) A lack or deficiency.

Public unrest or disorder.

To find error or defect in; criticize or blame

An instance of this; a disturbance.

(Geology) To produce a fault in; fracture.

Troubles Any of various conflicts or rebellions in Ireland or Northern Ireland, especially the period of social unrest in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.

To commit a mistake or an error.

To afflict with pain or discomfort

(Geology) To shift so as to produce a fault.

To cause to be anxious or worried

(Sports) To commit a fault, as in tennis.

To cause to have emotional or mental problems that interfere with social functioning

A defect; something that detracts from perfection.

To inconvenience; bother

A mistake or error.

To agitate; stir up

A weakness of character; a failing.

To take pains

A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which subjects a person or thing to increased risk of danger.

A distressing or dangerous situation.

A minor offense.

A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.

A violent occurrence or event.

(seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.

Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.

(mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.

A malfunction.

(tennis) An illegal serve.

Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.

(electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.

(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

(obsolete) want; lack

(Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. trouble and strife

(hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).

(transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

(transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.

To fracture.

(transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.

(intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.

To take pains to do something.

To undergo a page fault.

(intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.

Defect; want; lack; default.

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.

To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

To give occasion for labor to; - used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

Troubled; dark; gloomy.

A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.

A fault or interruption in a stratum.

A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.

a source of difficulty;

To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

an angry disturbance;

To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; - chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

an event causing distress or pain;

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

an effort that is inconvenient;

responsibility for a bad situation or event;

a strong feeling of anxiety;

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;

an unwanted pregnancy;

the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection;

move deeply;

a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;

to cause inconvenience or discomfort to;

an imperfection in a device or machine;

disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed;

(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area);

take the trouble to do something; concern oneself;

(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.);

cause bodily suffering to

put or pin the blame on