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Fault vs Thinko - What's the difference?

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Fault is a synonym of thinko.


As nouns the difference between fault and thinko

is that fault is a defect; something that detracts from perfection while thinko is (slang|neologism) a careless mistake made in thinking.

As a verb fault

is to criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

fault

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault .
  • A mistake or error.
    • No!. This is my fault, not yours
  • A weakness of character; a failing.
    • For all her faults , she's a good person at heart.
  • A minor offense.
  • Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
    • The fault lies with you.
  • (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
  • (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
    • slate fault''', dirt '''fault , etc.
    (Raymond)
  • (tennis) An illegal serve.
  • (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
  • (obsolete) want; lack
  • * Shakespeare
    • one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend
  • (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.

    Derived terms

    * at fault * double fault * to a fault

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
  • * Traditional song
    • For that I will not fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
  • (geology) To fracture.
  • To commit a mistake or error.
  • (computing) To undergo a page fault.
  • * 2002 , Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration
    • 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.

    thinko

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, neologism) A careless mistake made in thinking.
    • I must have done quite a thinko , but I don't remember leaving my keys in the refrigerator.
  • * 1998 , K. G. Binmore, Game Theory and the Social Contract , Volume 2: Just Playing, page 34,
    • We need to face the fact that thinkos are likely to be much more important, even though such a source of noise is much harder to model.
  • * 2006 , Kristen B. Donohue, Misused Words and Other Witing Gaffes: A Manager's Primer'', Harvard Business School, ''Written Communications that Inform and Influence , page 164,
    • Spell-checkers can help with simple types such as misspellings and repeated words, but they are little defense against the equally common "thinkos'," such as the inconvenience/incontinence example above. Your only defense against ' thinkos is a careful read.
  • * 2008 , Kurt Wall, Tcl and Tk Programming for the Absolute Beginner , page 134,
    • I don't know about you, but I don't want to grovel through a bunch of code blocks to track down a typo or thinko .
  • * 2009 , Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times , page 59,
    • There are two kinds of linguistic missteps, the typos and the thinkos'. Typos are the processing glitches that intercede between a thought and its expression. They can make you look foolish, but they aren't really the signs of an intellectual or ethical deficiency, the way ' thinkos are.

    Synonyms

    * (mistake) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, brain fart, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble ** See also

    Coordinate terms

    * clicko, scanno, spello, typo