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Definition: FAULT-FINDING |
FAULT-FINDINGNoun1. The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj. |
Date "FAULT-FINDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | A general description of locating and diagnosing faults, according to a pre-arranged schedule, generally arranged in a chart or table, with or without special instruments. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FAULT-FINDINGSynonyms: Captious, Censorious. (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: fault finding (electrical engineering), fault investigation, fault location, trouble-shooting. |
Crosswords: FAULT-FINDING |
| Specialty definitions using "FAULT-FINDING": Liver ♦ Nag, Nagging ♦ Scratch. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Thomas p Kempis | He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Iran | However, the 1995 Press Law prohibits the publishing of a broad and ill-defined category of subjects, including material "insulting Islam and its sanctities" or "promoting subjects that might damage the foundation of the Islamic Republic." Generally prohibited topics include fault-finding comment regarding the personality and achievements of the late Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini; direct criticism of the Supreme Leader; assailing the principle of velayat-e faqih, or rule by a supreme religious leader; questioning the tenets of certain Islamic legal principles; sensitive or classified material affecting national security; promotion of the views of certain dissident clerics, including Grand Ayatollah Ali Montazeri; and advocating rights or autonomy for ethnic minorities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FAULT-FINDING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "FAULT-FINDING" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 58.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FAULT-FINDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | moittimishaluinen, arvosteleva (critical). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szőrszálhasogatás (casuistry, niggling), kicsinyesség (fussiness, littleness, narrow mindedness, pettiness), kicsinyes (from spite, literal, narrow, narrow minded, narrow-minded, out of spite, petty, punctilious, small minded). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 小言 (scolding), 小喧しい (nagging), 'め立て . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ""と (from door to door, scolding), "やかましい (nagging), とがめ て. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | loghtaghey (arraign, arraignment, reprobation), loghtagh (bad, bad incorrect, blameable, blameworthy, culpable, defaulter, defective, delinquent, faulty, illgotten, iniquitous, offending, vicious), kennoughey (fault-find), foillshirragh, feddyn foutyn, cremey (bellyache). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ault-findingfay klandersjuka (fault finder). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "FAULT-FINDING" (pronounced 'Fault"-find`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Diesinking, Direct-acting, Do-nothing, Double-acting, Double-tonguing, Downfalling, Downlying, Drawfiling, Dressmaking, Easy-going, Farseeing, Findfaulting, Fireprrofing, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: faultfinding. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-t-u" | |
-3 letters: flaunting, inflating, unfailing. | |
-4 letters: auditing, daunting, dilating, diluting, fainting, faulting, flinting, guanidin, gunflint, inguinal, unfading, unlading. | |
-5 letters: alining, antiflu, antigun, daffing, dauting, dialing, digital, dinting, dunting, failing, fatling, finding, fliting, fluting, funding, gainful, gliadin, induing, indulin, intagli, landing, languid, lauding, lifting, luffing, lunting, nailing, nautili, tailing, tiffing, uniting. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: faultfindings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 55 4C 54 2D 46 49 4E 44 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01010101 01001100 01010100 00101101 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A U L T - F I N D I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 0055 004C 0054 002D 0046 0049 004E 0044 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40355546541540434838434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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