失败 — meaning in English

English meaning

• error noun A mistake, especially one made unintentionally.
• flop verb To fall or drop down heavily and loosely.
• miscarry verb To lose a pregnancy before the foetus can survive outside the womb.

Senses

失败 is used for these senses in English:

• error (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• flop (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
• miscarry To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.). [from 16th c.]

error — full definition

1. noun A mistake, especially one made unintentionally.
2. noun A malfunction or fault reported by a machine or computer program.
3. noun The difference between a measured or calculated value and the true or correct value.

flop — full definition

1. verb To fall or drop down heavily and loosely.
2. verb To fail completely, especially of a film, product, or performance.
3. noun A complete failure.

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