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Failure vs Omission - What's the difference?

failure | omission |

As nouns the difference between failure and omission

is that failure is state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success while omission is the act of omitting.

failure

English

(wikipedia failure)

Noun

(en noun)
  • State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 23, author=Angelique Chrisafis, work=the Guardian
    • , title= François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , passage=Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure . It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.}}
  • An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
  • Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

    Related terms

    * fail

    Synonyms

    * (person incapable of success) loser

    Antonyms

    * (state or condition) success, triumph

    omission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of omitting.
  • The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
  • Something deleted or left out.
  • Something not done or neglected.
  • (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.

    • Usage notes

    Following are common examples of omission using an apostrophe: : six o’clock (shortening of “six of the clock”) : The high school class of ’69 (shortening of “1969”) : O’er there (shortening of “over there”) * From Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : *: S’pose people left money laying around where he was—what did he do? He collared it. S’pose he contracted to do a thing; and you paid him, and didn’t set down there and see that he done it—what did he do? He always done the other thing. S’pose he opened his mouth—what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every time. That’s the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we’d ’a’ had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d ’a’ fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.

    See also

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