fault vs skip

fault and skip both are nouns.

fault and skip both are verbs.

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

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

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
skip: a mistake resulting from neglect

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, 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)	skip (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	a mistake resulting from neglect
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)	a gait in which steps and hops alternate
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)	skip (verb)
put or pin the blame on	bypass
	cause to skip over a surface
	jump lightly
	leave suddenly
	bound off one point after another
	intentionally fail to attend

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