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[Verb] | "fail" | \ ˈfāl \
1: to lose strength : weaken
2: to fade or die away
3: to stop functioning normally
Origin: 13th century ;
Middle English failen, from Anglo-French faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere to deceive, disappoint;
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[Noun] | "fail"
1: failure —usually used in the phrase without fail
2: a failure (as by a security dealer) to deliver or receive securities within a prescribed period after purchase or sale
Origin: 13th century ;
See: ;
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[Noun] | "fail-safe"
1: a device or measure that makes something fail-safe
Origin: 1975 ;
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[Noun] | "epic fail"
1: a notable, obvious, and usually public failure
Origin: 2007 ;
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[Adjective] | "fail-safe" | \ ˈfāl-ˌsāf \
1: incorporating some feature for automatically counteracting the effect of an anticipated possible source of failure
2: being or relating to a safeguard that prevents continuing on a bombing mission according to a preconceived plan
3: having no chance of failure : infallibly problem-free
Origin: 1931 ;
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[Adjective] | "pass-fail" | \ ˈpas-ˈfāl \
1: being a system of grading whereby the grades "pass" and "fail" replace the traditional letter grades
Origin: 1930 ;
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[Idiom] | "fail to see/understand"
1: to not understand —often used when someone does not agree with something
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[Idiom] | "without fail"
1: —used to stress that something always happens
2: —used to stress that something will definitely happen
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[Idiom] | "words fail someone"
1: —used to say that a person does not know what to say
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[Verb] | "fail"
1: to stop functioning;
* e.g., " ... my car failed just as I was about to head to work "
Synonyms :
die,
Antonyms :
2: to be unsuccessful;
* e.g., " ... despite all the publicity, the movie failed miserably at the box office "
3: to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of;
* e.g., " ... although the minor-league franchise continues to fail local fans, hope springs eternal "
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[Adjective] | "fail-safe"
1: not likely to fail;
* e.g., " ... flowers have been traditionally regarded as the fail-safe gift for Valentine's Day "
Synonyms :
sure,
Antonyms :
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[Noun] | "fail-safe"
1: a measure taken to preclude loss or injury;
* e.g., " ... there are so many fail-safes built into the system that a highly unlikely series of mistakes would have to be made before failure could occur "
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[Noun] | "fail-safes"
1: a measure taken to preclude loss or injury;
* e.g., " ... there are so many fail-safes built into the system that a highly unlikely series of mistakes would have to be made before failure could occur "
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(10) - Urban Dictionary
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# 1 - { fail:1398584 }
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[ "fail" ]
1: Another word for "suck", most probably derived from the world of internet gaming.
* e.g., ... What do you mean you lost? YOU FAIL!
[ "fail" ]
2: To not achieve
* e.g., ... I failed at achieving sickness to avoid the presentation.
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[ "fail" ]
1: A rather annoying word whose use in certain situations has greatly increased recently.
* e.g., ... A kid falls off a bike.
[ "fail" ]
2: Kind of like the word "shit," "fail" is used by people who don't stop to think of a better word to use, making them pretty much useless to society.
* e.g., ... Douche bag: Fail!
# 3 - { fail:5192249 }
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[ "fail" ]
1: UNF fleet from Navyfield. They are just so terrible.
* e.g., ... UNF failed so hard they broke up and formed a new fleet called Jollyrogers.
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[ "fail" ]
1: To fail is to be either:
* e.g., ... arpgme's comic FAILS
[ "fail" ]
2: Exceptionally bad at something, or to do/say something stupid to people,
* e.g., ... (Therefore meaning that it could be bad or poor at what it is intended to do)
[ "fail" ]
3: Or for an item/thing to fail, it has to not be what it is, such as a funny comic not being funny, etc.
* e.g., ... You sir, FAIL.
# 5 - { fail:4305400 }
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[ "fail" ]
1: What unoriginal, unimaginative motherfuckers say to other people in an attempt to help them forget what a failure their life really is.
* e.g., ... Person A: "What an epic fail"
# 6 - { fail:5703931 }
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[ "fail" ]
1: What people tend to do when engaging in online chatrooms by not giving themselves the ability to hit the backspace button to correct epic typos.
* e.g., ... Person 1: <# i luvv youu!!1
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[ "fail" ]
1: the stupidest trend in existence, said by people who lack a better word, or just don't have the balls to say "you suck"
supposed to imply failure at whatever was just attempted
* e.g., ... *kid trips over*
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[ "fail" ]
1: If you do not succeed at a goal that you were going for
* e.g., ... I failed at getting the job that I wanted.
[ "fail" ]
2: If you get a low test score
* e.g., ... I failed on the test today.
[ "fail" ]
3: If you are a faggy fuckfaced shithole eating anal grease sucking buttfucking shit raping douche-waffle-mc'cunt-nugget, then you can use this to describe your friends if they do something that they weren't even trying to succeed at
* e.g., ... Kid accidentally trips
[ "fail" ]
4: A person disses you and you are such a fuckhole that you can't think of a diss you may use "fail" here.
* e.g., ... Faggy douchebag shitfucker: You Fail!
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[ "fail" ]
1: 1: To not achieve one's goals.
* e.g., ... 1: I wanted to fuck her in the ass, but even after I said that she'd do it if she really loved me, she said no. I failed.
[ "fail" ]
2: 2: To recieve a grade of less than 60/100 on a test.
* e.g., ... 2: At the DMV I scored a 15/100 on the Alcohol and Substance Abuse test. Suffice to say, I failed.
[ "fail" ]
3: 3: A word which has become an instant giveaway for stupid teenage fucks who think they are clever because they say things like "EPIC FAIL" or "YOU FAIL". Originally, these and other stupid phrases incorporating the word "fail" were given birth within internet cesspots such as 4chan, but they have rapidly found acceptance among the adolescent population as the new, cool thing to say.
* e.g., ... 3: "You've never seen Donnie Darko? YOU FAIL."
[ "fail" ]
4: It is likely to become another pseudo-intellectual word popularized by the internet- further examples including words such as existentialism.
* e.g., ... "You don't like Napolean Dynamite? YOU FAIL."
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[ "fail" ]
1: adjective
* e.g., ... -"God that tank in VOA sucked ass..."
[ "fail" ]
2: 1)a: describing any noun or event as having failed; b: the state of being a failure.
2)An internet meme that has become more commonplace in "RL" amongst those of the video game/internet culture.
The use of fail and its amusement are derived from video games out of the common "game over" screens or "mission failure" notifications. Often this is used in redundancy to create a sense of irony: Fail ____ is fail: in which case any noun is thus being identified by the adjective and described by it.
* e.g., ... -"Fail DK is fail!"
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