Faulter vs. Fault — What's the Difference?

(obsolete) One who commits a fault.

A character weakness, especially a minor one.

One who commits a fault.

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

A mistake; an error

A minor offense or misdeed

Responsibility for a mistake or an offense; culpability.

(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.

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

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

(Archaic) A lack or deficiency.

To find error or defect in; criticize or blame

(Geology) To produce a fault in; fracture.

To commit a mistake or an error.

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

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

A defect; something that detracts from perfection.

A mistake or error.

A weakness of character; a failing.

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

A minor offense.

Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.

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

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

(tennis) An illegal serve.

(electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.

(obsolete) want; lack

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

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

To fracture.

(intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.

To undergo a page fault.

Defect; want; lack; default.

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

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

A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

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

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

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.

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

Responsibility for a bad situation or event;

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

The quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection;

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

An imperfection in a device or machine;

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

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

Put or pin the blame on