fault vs blot

fault and blot both are nouns.

fault and blot both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fault	Yes	No	Yes	No
blot	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
blot: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

Other hyponyms of fault include 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, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

fault (noun)	blot (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)	a blemish made by dirt
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)	blot (verb)
put or pin the blame on	dry (ink) with blotting paper
	make a spot or mark onto

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