FLAW

[flɔː]

трещина, щель, порок, брак

изъян, недостаток, порок

упущение, ошибка

повредить, испортиться

вызывать трещину; трескаться; раскалывать

делать недействительным, лишать законной силы

порыв ветра; шквал; вспышка ненастья

прилив, вспышка

flaw: translation

▪ big, main, major, serious

▪ basic, critical, fatal, fundamental

▪ inherent

▪ minor, small

▪ obvious

▪ design

▪ security

▪ character

▪ contain, have

▪

Unfortunately, this plate has a small flaw in it.

▪ look for

▪ discover, find, identify, see, spot

▪

It took me a long time to find the flaw in her logic.

▪

Engineers have identified serious design flaws in the proposed nuclear waste dump.

▪ expose, highlight, point out, point to, reveal

▪

The markets have exposed the fatal flaw in the government's economic policy.

▪ correct, fix

▪ appear, become apparent

▪

Flaws have appeared in the new version of the software.

▪ flaw in

▪

one of the major flaws in his character

flaw: translation

flaw flaw [flɔː ǁ flɒː] noun [countable]

1. a mistake or weakness in a machine, system etc that prevents it from working correctly:

flaw in

2. a mistake in an argument, plan, or set of ideas:

flaw in

flaw UK US /flɔː/ noun [C]

► a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made: »

The company had to spend millions correcting design flaws.

serious/major/minor flaw (in sth) »

There seemed to be no serious flaws in the proposal and it was recommended for further consideration.

1. [flɔ:] n

1. 1) трещина (в драгоценном камне, в стекле, фарфоре)

2) пороки, трещины (в металле)

3) фаут (древесины)

2. изъян, недостаток, дефект, порок; слабое место

3.юр. упущение, ошибка (в документе и т. п.)

4. шотл. ложь, выдумка

5. мористая кромка берегового льда

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tragic flaw - трагическая вина (героя греческой трагедии)

2. [flɔ:] v

1. 1) вызывать трещину; портить

2) трескаться; портиться

2. юр. делать недействительным

flaw: translation

aberrancy, aberration, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bad habit, besetting sin, birthmark, black mark, blackhead, blast, bleb, blemish, blister, blot, blow, box canyon, breach, break, bug, bulla, canyon, catch, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, comedo, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, damage, deface, defacement, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, defile, deform, deformation, deformity, dell, delusion, deviancy, dike, discredit, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, ditch, donga, draw, drawback, errancy, erroneousness, error, excavation, failing, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, faute, fissure, flawedness, flume, flurry, foible, fracture, frailty, freckle, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gust, hamartia, harm, hemangioma, heresy, heterodoxy, hickey, hole, hurt, illusion, imperfection, inadequacy, incision, infirmity, joint, keloid, kink, kloof, leak, lentigo, little problem, loophole, mar, mark, milium, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, moat, mole, moral flaw, needle scar, nevus, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, peccancy, perforation, perversion, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, problem, puncture, pustule, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rip, ruin, rupture, scab, scar, scarify, scissure, scratch, scud, seam, sebaceous cyst, self-contradiction, shortcoming, sin, sinfulness, slit, slot, snag, something missing, split, spoil, stain, stigmatize, strawberry mark, sty, taint, tear, track, trench, twist, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, valley, verruca, vesicle, vice, void, vulnerable place, wadi, wale, warp, wart, weak link, weak point, weak side, weaken, weakness, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wind gust, wrong, wrongness