Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
From Fail
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
O. Fr. faillir—L. fallĕre, to deceive; cf. Dut. feilen, Ger. fehlen, Ice. feila.
In literature:
O, poor; OO, failure.
"Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943" by Various
He had also failed to notice that military failures could not affect Madison's strength.
"A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3" by DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
I was careful to prepare them all for failure.
"The Shadow World" by Hamlin Garland
Return visits I know of, such as these, have been appalling failures.
"The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)" by Harry Furniss
But the attempt proved an utter failure.
"History of the English People" by John Richard Green
What precautions are you going to take against failure this time?
"Mental Efficiency" by Arnold Bennett
Seldom does a farmer attribute his failure to the poverty of his soil.
"Farm drainage" by Henry Flagg French
He told of his failures and successes with impartial enthusiasm.
"The Heart of Unaga" by Ridgwell Cullum
But that failure was certainly the turning-point of the war.
"A History of the United States" by Cecil Chesterton
I'm going to make this fight and I've a sickening foreboding of failure.
"The Root of Evil" by Thomas Dixon
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In poetry:
Many a field most fertile
Bears vile and noxious weeds,
Through failure of the tiller
To sow some worthy seeds.
"Many" by Jared Barhite
And yet I fear some recreant thought,
Which now I all forget,
That painful feeling in me wrought
Of failure, lingering yet.
"A Book of Dreams: Part I" by George MacDonald
Failure, say they? Who would fear
When the world is wide before,
And the skies are wide above,
And a strong man's heart is sure?
"Nec Aspera Terrent" by Cicely Fox Smith
Old MRS. PETER soon began
To see the failure of his plan,
And then resolved (I quote the Bard)
To "hoist him with his own petard."
"The Perils of Invisibility" by William Schwenck Gilbert
Right wronged, and knowledge wasted;
Wise labour spurned for ease;
The sloth and the sin and the failure;
Did I grow sad for these?
"In the Black Forest" by Amy Levy
In danger, failure, suffering, she
Cheer'd on with her unchanging smile,
Still looking forth to victory,
As free from doubt as far from guile.
"The Beauteous Terrorist" by Sir Henry Parkes
In news:
Councilman calls Chase Tower ' congestive heart failure '.
Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 of congestive heart failure .
Elizabeth Taylor is back in the hospital, being treated for congestive heart failure , RadarOnline.com has confirmed.
Duckworth's autopsy: congestive heart failure .
Failure followed failure as the years went by, and though he never gave up hope for another fresh start, the horizon began to hold darker visions of an angry future.
The Government's statutory register plans have been labelled inadequate for their failure to include in-house lobbyists such as News Corporation's Frederic Michel.
Patriots receiver Wes Welker said the failure to reach a long-term contract with the Patriots has been removed from his mindset, and his focus is on playing well and helping the team win games.
When one of them has a bearing problem, the belt stops moving — even though the bearings are often not the root cause of the failure.
Tips to Prevent Coolant Failure.
On Monday, the NCAA is scheduled to hit Penn State with ' corrective and punitive measures' for the university's failure to prevent repeated sexual abuse of young boys by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
The inspectors have not yet seen testing records for the pipe that failed, but given its age and the condition of pipes connected to it, they believe corrosion is a strong possible cause of its failure.
With the stronger disinfectants being used today to meet stricter EPA standards, however, these traditional systems are showing greater vulnerability to pitting, corrosion and premature leaks and failures.
The US bans imports of Costa Rican shrimp over failure to protect endangered turtles.
An excuse doesn't substantiate failure.
Failure is a lack of intended results.
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In science:
The failure of the quenched approximation has been reproduced in such lattice models.
Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD
The failure of the quenched approximation at nonzero chemical potential was first understood analytically in terms of chRMT by Stephanov [186].
Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD
Examples are the properties of the Dirac spectrum in the approach to the critical temperature, the failure of the quenched approximation at µ > 0, and the phase diagram of the QCD partition function in the µT m plane.
Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD
The naive limit is shown to exist only for standard Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies, due to failure to parameterize the whole phase space by densities Ni of annihilators of the first Poisson structure.
Solutions to WDVV from generalized Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies
Non-termination or failure to find a derivation will result.
Interfacing Constraint-Based Grammars and Generation Algorithms
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