fail
suomi-englanti sanakirjafail englannista suomeksi
epäonnistua
joutua vararikkoon
pettää
pysähtyä, mennä rikki
olla kykenemätön jhk
jättää tekemättä
heiketä
reputtaa
epäonnistua, tyriä informal, mokata informal, möhlätä informal, töpätä informal, munata informal, tunaroida informal, sössiä informal, möhliä informal, feilata slang, kämmätä slang, flopata informal, ryssiä informal, sählätä informal, säheltää informal, mennä pieleen, mennä mönkään, mennä reisille slang, mennä puihin, mennä vituiksi vulgar, slang, kyrvähtää vulgar, slang, mennä penkin alle, kusta vulgar, slang, valua hiekkaan, kuivua kokoon, mennä myttyyn, mennä plörinäksi, kädettää slang, mennä kiville informal, töpeksiä informal, stefuttaa slang, tupeksia informal
vioittua, vikaantua, vikautua, mennä rikki, pysähtyä, rikkoontua, hajota, rikkoutua
Substantiivi
Verbi
fail englanniksi
To be unsuccessful.
(ux)
(RQ:Holinshed Chronicles)
(quote-journal)| title=A new prescription| passage=As the world’s drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
To neglect.
To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
(RQ:KJV)
1843, (w), ''and Present (book)|Past and Present'', book 3, ch. II, ''Gospel of Mammonism''
- 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 …
(quote-book)| title=The Mirror and the Lamp| chapter=2| url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1097634W| passage=''That'' the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.
To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
To miss attaining; to lose.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with ''of''.
1757, (w), ''A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful''
- If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
(RQ:Milton PL)
To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
To perish; to die; used of a person.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8)
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
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.
Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
A failure (gloss)
A failure, especially of a financial transaction (gloss).
A failing grade in an academic examination.
That is a failure.
A piece of turf cut from grassland.
(l),
a collection of papers collated and archived together.
(syn)
an aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
(l) (l)
file (gloss)
information or a document about someone, something etc.
file (gloss)
(alternative form of)