Sunday, November 18, 2012

Failure

Failure.


Definition of failure

noun

  • 1lack of success:an economic policy that is doomed to failurethe failures of his policies
  • an unsuccessful person, enterprise, or thing:bad weather had resulted in crop failures
  • 2the omission of expected or required action:their failure to comply with the basic rules
  • a lack or deficiency of a desirable quality:a failure of imagination
  • 3the action or state of not functioning:symptoms of heart failurean engine failure
  • a sudden cessation of power.
  • the collapse of a business.

Origin:

mid 17th century (originally as failer, in the senses 'nonoccurrence' and 'cessation of supply'): from Anglo-Norman French failer for Old French faillir (see fail)


That pretty much sums me up in a nutshell these days.

Love,
me

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