fault vs stain

fault and stain both are nouns.

fault and stain both are verbs.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of fault include blot, smear, smirch, spot, 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)	stain (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 soiled or discolored appearance
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection	a symbol of disgrace or infamy
responsibility for a bad situation or event	anything regarded as making something unclean
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)	(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
(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)	stain (verb)
put or pin the blame on	produce or leave stains
	color with a liquid dye or tint
	color for microscopic study
	make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

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