Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (uncountable) (slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
- (slang) A failure
- (slang, US) A failure
- A failure, especially of a financial transaction .
- A failing grade in an academic examination.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- (transitive) To neglect.
- (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
- (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
- (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
- (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
- (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
Adjektiivit
- (slang, US) That is a failure.
Esimerkit
- The project was full of fail.
- As the world’s drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- Throughout my life, I have always failed.
- The truck failed to start.
- The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
- After running five minutes, the engine failed.
- There shall not fail thee a man on the throne.
- A poor Irish Widow […] went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the Charitable Establishments of that City. At this Charitable Establishment and then at that she was refused; referred from one to the other, helped by none; — till she had exhausted them all; till her strength and heart failed her: she sank down in typhus-fever […]
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.
- I failed in English last year.
- The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
- though that seat of earthly bliss be failed
- The crops failed last year.
- as the waters fail from the sea
- Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign.
- If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size.
- When earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.
- A sick man fails.
- had the king in his last sickness failed
- Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps / Shall grieve him, if I fail not.
- He failed the exam. He got only 40% correct on the exam.
- don't fail me
- His ejection seat failed and he was forced to bail out manually.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | failed | Partisiipin perfekti | fail'd (vanhahtava) |
| Imperfekti | failed | Imperfekti | fail'd (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin preesens | failing | Monikko | fails |
| Komparatiivi | more fail | Superlatiivi | most fail |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | fails |