Fault vs Damage - What's the difference?
fault | damage |
A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
* Shakespeare
A mistake or error.
A weakness of character; a failing.
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
* Shakespeare
(hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
* Shakespeare
To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
* Traditional song
(geology) To fracture.
To commit a mistake or error.
(computing) To undergo a page fault.
* 2002 , Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
As nouns the difference between fault and damage
is that fault is a defect; something that detracts from perfection while damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.As verbs the difference between fault and damage
is that fault is to criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone while damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.fault
English
Noun
(en noun)- As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault .
- No!. This is my fault, not yours
- For all her faults , she's a good person at heart.
- The fault lies with you.
- slate fault''', dirt '''fault , etc.
- (Raymond)
- one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend
- Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.
Derived terms
* at fault * double fault * to a faultSynonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- For that I will not fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
- When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.
damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.