Difference between Fault and Shift

What is the difference between Fault and Shift?

Fault as a verb is to criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. while Shift as a verb is to change, swap.

Fault

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. To fracture. To commit a mistake or error.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A defect; something that detracts from perfection. A mistake or error. A weakness of character. A minor offense. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake. A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity An illegal serve. An abnormal connection in a circuit.

Example sentence: Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

Shift

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a type of women's undergarment, a slipa change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working timean act of shifting; a slight movement or changethe gear mechanism in a motor vehiclea button on a keyboard, chiefly for switching between upper and lower casea bit shiftThe infield shift.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To change, swap.to move from one place to another; to redistribute.to change position.To change gears (in a car).to remove the first value from an array.to dispose of.to hurry.to engage in sexual petting.

Example sentence: Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

We hope you now know whether to use Fault or Shift in your sentence.

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