to fail

A poor Irish Widow went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the Charitable Establishments of that City. At this Charitable Establishment and then at that she was refused; referred from one to the other, helped by none; — till she had exhausted them all; till her strength and heart failed her: she sank down in typhus-fever.

Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

The engine failed to start.

break down

I am afraid my computer will break down if I try to run it at too high a speed.

{v} to break in business, be deficient or short, miss, perish, die, desert, neglect

emphasis You use without fail to emphasize that something always happens. He attended every meeting without fail

If someone fails in their duty or fails in their responsibilities, they do not do everything that they have a duty or a responsibility to do. If we did not report what was happening in the country, we would be failing in our duty

If a quality or ability that you have fails you, or if it fails, it is not good enough in a particular situation to enable you to do what you want to do. For once, the artist's fertile imagination failed him Their courage failed a few steps short and they came running back

To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert

get worse; "Her health is declining" stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis" become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year" fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust" fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students" be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" be unable; "I fail to understand your motives

Failure

We do not tolerate failure. - We don't tolerate failure.

We don't tolerate failure. - We do not tolerate failure.

To perish; to die; used of a person

The failure of a seller to deliver securities to the purchaser or to a specified place of delivery as contracted

A transaction between two municipal securities brokers or dealers on which delivery does not take place on the settlement date A transaction in which a dealer has yet to deliver securities is referred to as a "fail to deliver;" a transaction in which a dealer has not yet received securities is referred to as a "fail to receive "

be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"

To be negligent in ones duty. (The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.)

stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"

In a hunting test, the dog does not perform well enough against the standard to pass the test on that day Failing could be for overall marginal performance or one major disqualifying fault

If an activity, attempt, or plan fails, it is not successful. We tried to develop plans for them to get along, which all failed miserably He was afraid the revolution they had started would fail After a failed military offensive, all government troops and police were withdrawn from the island. succeed

If someone or something fails to do a particular thing that they should have done, they do not do it. Some schools fail to set any homework The bomb failed to explode

A goal is said to haved failed if it could not be proven

A trade that does not settle properly, as the seller failed to deliver security as contracted or the buyer does not have money to pay

judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

to miss; not to fulfill expectation

Death; decease

fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

A trade is said to fail if on settlement date either the seller fails to deliver securities in proper form or the buyer fails to deliver funds in proper form

Generate an unsuccessful result for a check, saving throw, or other determination involving a die roll In some cases, consequences for failure are listed in individual check descriptions (For example, falling is the penalty for failing a Climb check by more than 5 points ) In general, characters may take <<20>> to ensure success on checks that list no penalties for failure, or simply retry such checks as many times as desired See also spell failure

To miss of attaining; to lose

To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc

be unable; "I fail to understand your motives

A Prolog operator that causes backtracking to occur

A deal is said to fail if on the settlement date either the seller does not deliver securities in proper form or the buyer does not to deliver funds in proper form

be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"

If something fails, it stops working properly, or does not do what it is supposed to do. The lights mysteriously failed, and we stumbled around in complete darkness In fact many food crops failed because of the drought

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A situation where either the seller fails to deliver the security in proper form or the buyer fails to deliver funds in the proper form on settlement date As long as the fail exists, the seller will not be paid

get worse; "Her health is declining"

fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"

To be unsuccessful in academic pursuits. (I failed in English last year.)

If someone fails a test, examination, or course, they perform badly in it and do not reach the standard that is required. I lived in fear of failing my end-of-term exams. pass Fail is also a noun. It's the difference between a pass and a fail

You say if all else fails to suggest what could be done in a certain situation if all the other things you have tried are unsuccessful. If all else fails, I could always drive a truck

If you fail to do something that you were trying to do, you are unable to do it or do not succeed in doing it. The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship He failed in his attempt to take control of the company Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably The truth is, I'm a failed comedy writer really. succeed

–specifies a failure condition

In the context of computers, one of the three historic choices offered by DOS when it could not complete the requested operation Also see Abort and Retry

Make the pattern fail on this occasion When a pattern fails, it means that the pattern was not truly available The calling routines in the compiler will try other strategies for code generation using other patterns Failure is currently supported only for binary (addition, multiplication, shifting, etc ) and bitfield (extv, extzv, and insv) operations

a failure, especially of a financial transaction

If something such as your health or a physical quality is failing, it is becoming gradually weaker or less effective. He was 58, and his health was failing rapidly An apparently failing memory is damaging for a national leader

If someone fails you, they do not do what you had expected or trusted them to do. communities who feel that the political system has failed them

To give a student a non-passing grade, thereby causing the student to fail (3) a class or other academic endeavor

To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink

To not achieve a particular goal

If a business, organization, or system fails, it becomes unable to continue in operation or in existence. So far this year, 104 banks have failed. a failed hotel business Who wants to buy a computer from a failing company?

become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"

{i} failure to perform, failure to occur (Archaic)

A security transaction which does not settle per its contract terms because of a failure by one of the counterparties to meet their obligation

of a machine, etc.: To cease to operate correctly. (After running five minutes, the engine failed.)

prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent

To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc

Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail

{f} be unsuccessful; make unsuccessful; not do; be weakened; disappoint; go bankrupt; be stopped; be used up, run out

Turkish - English

Definition of to fail in Turkish English dictionary

perpetrator

Sami was the perpetrator of the murder. - Sami cinayetin failiydi.

Sami was the perpetrator of the murder. - Cinayetin faili Sami'ydi.

author

(Kanun) wrongdoer

agent

{i} principal