fail
agent. author. perpetrator.

fail
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.

fail
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

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

fail
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

fail
To perish; to die; used of a person.

fail
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.

fail
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.

fail
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

fail
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.

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

fail
To miss of attaining; to lose.

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Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

fail
Death; decease. 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'.

fail
perpetrator. subject. active. agency. efficient. offender.

fail
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 unsuccessful; 'Where do today's public schools fail?'; 'The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably'. 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'. 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'. be unable; 'I fail to understand your motives'. judge unacceptable; 'The teacher failed six students'. fail to get a passing grade; 'She studied hard but failed nevertheless'; 'Did I fail the test?'. 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'. 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'. prove insufficient; 'The water supply for the town failed after a long drought'. get worse; 'Her health is declining'.

fail
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.

fail
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.

fail
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.

fail
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.

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

fail
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 '.

fail
Failure.

fail
A Prolog operator that causes backtracking to occur.

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

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

fail
Udh Brir Khser. specifies a failure condition.

fail
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.

fail
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 and bitfield operations.