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failure

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Failure is a song by the alternative metal band Sevendust from their fifth studio album Next . It was released as a single in 2006.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fail \Fail\, n. [OF. faille, from failir. See Fail , v. i.] Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing , except in the phrase without fail. ``His highness' fail of issue.'' --Shak. Death; decease. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, failer , "a failing, deficiency," also "act of failing," from Anglo-French failer , Old French falir "be lacking; not succeed" (see fail (v.)). The verb in Anglo-French used as a noun; ending altered 17c. in English to conform with words in -ure ...

Usage examples of failure.

The abutments also must be strong enough to take safely the thrust of the weighted arch, as the slightest movement in these supports will cause deflection and failure.

And of course they do not tell us of the more than a thousand deaths each year in the United States from the use of aspirin, or the apparent 5,000 annual cases of kidney failure from the use of acetaminophen, of which the best-selling brand is Tylenol.

The United States was prepared neither to seize the leadership nor to acquiesce in Japanese control of China which must result from failure to seize it.

Margland was a woman of family and fashion, but reduced, through the gaming and extravagance of her father, to such indigence, that, after sundry failures in higher attempts, she was compelled to acquiesce in the good offices of her friends, which placed her as a governess in the house of Sir Hugh.

It offers itself for belief, and, if believed, it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it, or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth.

If Addis spoke lightly of your role, it was only to permit you to refuse with no embarrassment, since in failure your fate will be worse than his.

The various corticoids, singly and together, could be used in cases of adrenal cortical failure much as insulin is used in diabetes.

The sympathetic system, and the adrenal medulla, too, are not necessary for life, except insofar as failure to react properly to an emergency may be fatal.

Honorius the afrit, apoplectic at the failure of its magic, had flung itself forward into the path of the advancing golem.

High blood pressure magnifies the aging and symptoms associated with diabetes, causes kidney failure and many other hormone-related conditions, and be triggered by thyroid, adrenal, or kidney problems.

Base they were met by the owner of the dry voice, still complaining about their failure to use the Amalgamated protocol.

Orthean weapons had largely been a failure, simply because Ortheans fight ambidextrously and I remained obstinately right-handed.

Air Force itself, were suffering a mild form of anomia - the loss of the ability to name an object correctly - as evidenced by their failure to recognize such obviously common things as weather balloons, planets, comets, etc.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

Court took cognizance of the full hearing accorded the appellant, and of his failure to choose another route, although he was at liberty to do so.