fault vs balls-up

balls-up vs fault

fault and balls-up both are nouns.

fault is a verb but balls-up is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fault	Yes	No	Yes	No
balls-up	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, balls-up is a hyponym of fault; that is, balls-up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fault:

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
balls-up: something badly botched or muddled

Other hyponyms of fault include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

fault (noun)	balls-up (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	something badly botched or muddled
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
responsibility for a bad situation or event
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
an imperfection in an object or machine

fault (verb)	balls-up (verb)
put or pin the blame on

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