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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English defaut, defaute, from Old French defaute (“fault, defect, failure, culpability, lack”), ultimately from Latin de- (“away”) + fallo (“deceive, cheat, escape notice of”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation):
- (noun) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɔːlt/, /ˈdiːˌfɔːlt/
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- (verb) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɔːlt/
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- (noun) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɔːlt/, /ˈdiːˌfɔːlt/
- (General American):
- (General American, cot–caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔːlt
Noun
[edit]default (countable and uncountable, plural defaults)
- (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- He failed to make payments on time, and he is now in default.
- You may cure this default by paying the full amount within a week.
- (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- The deadline has passed, so the debt is now in default.
- (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
- The team's three losses include one default.
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- The man became the leader of the group as a default.
- 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian[1]:
- One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 6:
- Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as the default language.
- (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- If you don't specify a number of items, the default is 1.
- (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (obsolete) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires.
- This evil has happened through the governor's default.
- (obsolete) Lack; absence.
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 156:
- one was dragging a great coat from the window, before which it had long hung as a blind, in total default of glass or shutters
- (obsolete) Fault; offence; wrong act.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
- regardless of our merit or default
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Russian: дефо́лт (defólt)
Translations
[edit]finance: condition of failing to meet an obligation
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electronics, computing: original settings
selection made in the absence of an alternative
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value used when none has been given
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law: failure of defendant to appear
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Verb
[edit]default (third-person singular simple present defaults, present participle defaulting, simple past and past participle defaulted)
- (intransitive) To fail to meet an obligation.
- (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
- to default on a loan
- (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
- Synonym: forfeit
- If you refuse to wear a proper uniform, you will not be allowed to compete and will default this match.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
- If you don't specify a color, it defaults to red.
- 2002, Tony Martin, Dominic Selly, Visual Basic .NET at Work: Building 10 Enterprise Projects, page 346:
- It defaults your application to Windows authentication mode, and if you want to use forms mode, you can just change it in the authentication section of the file.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]1.2 finance: to fail to fulfill a financial obligation
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computing: to assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard
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Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English default.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]default m (plural defaults)
- (finance) default (condition of failing to meet an obligation)
- (computing) default (original settings)
- (computing) default (value used when none has been given)
Adjective
[edit]default (invariable, not comparable)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English default.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]default m (plural defaults)
- default
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