What is fail?

  • (verb): Judge unacceptable.
    Example: "The teacher failed six students"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on fail:

James M. Fail
... Fail (March 28, 1926 – February 26, 2010) is an American financial executive, the chairman of Stone Holdings, Inc ... In the following decades, Fail and his holding companies have owned and operated a variety of investment, mortgage, banking, savings and loan, and insurance businesses throughout the U.S ... Fail was thrust into public attention in 1990, when the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommitee held hearings scrutinizing his business activities, in particular his acquisition of a federally ...
Copycats - Games - Physical Challenges
... If they fail, the other team get 25 points ... If they fail, the other team get 25 points ... If they fail, the other team get 25 points ...
School Leaving Certificate (Nepal) - Results
60% to 79.99% Second Division - 45% to 59.99% Third Division - 32% to 44.99% Fail-Below 32% Despite such a low percentage requirement to pass the examination ... Even though if one fail to get above 40 marks in each subject, they are declared to fail the exam.The result of the SLC is very important to an individual ...
James M. Fail - Philanthropy and Community Involvement
... Fail has served as a Director of the Beneficial Mortgage Company, a member of the Economic Club of New York and a founder of its Centennial Society, and a Director of the Phoenix Symphony ... In 1997 he established The Patsy and Jim Fail Scholarship at Birmingham-Southern College for "any worthy and deserving student" ... In 2007 Fail donated $200,000 to the Mobile Symphony, endowing its principal cello chair in memory of his wife ...
Southeast Bulloch High School - Testing Results
... Arts-Pass Plus 55%, pass 36%, fail 10% Mathematics-Pass Plus 53%, pass 40%, fail 7% Social StudiesPass Plus 42%, pass 45%, fail 14% Science-Pass Plus 51%, pass 36%, fail 13% The GHSWT (Georgia ...

More definitions of "fail":

  • (verb): Get worse.
    Example: "Her health is declining"
  • (verb): Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close.
    Example: "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"
  • (verb): Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake.
    Synonyms: betray
  • (verb): Be unsuccessful.
    Example: "Where do today's public schools fail?"
    Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry
  • (verb): Fall short in what is expected.
    Example: "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"
  • (verb): Fail to get a passing grade.
    Example: "Did I fail the test?"
    Synonyms: flunk, bomb, flush it
  • (verb): Be unable.
    Example: "I fail to understand your motives"
  • (verb): Fail to do something; leave something undone.
    Synonyms: neglect

Famous quotes containing the word fail:

    “When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “Love, my fate got luckily,
    Teaches with no telling
    That the phoenix’ bid for heaven and the desire after
    Death in the carved nunnery
    Both shall fail if I bow not to your blessing....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)