Meaning of "flaw" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLAW

Probably from Old Norse flaga stone slab; related to Swedish flaga chip, flake, flaw.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLAW

flaw  [flɔː]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLAW

Flaw is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flaw in English.

WHAT DOES FLAW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Flaw

Flaw may refer to: ▪ Flaw, an American rock band ▪ Flaw, an album by the band ▪ The Flaws, an Irish indie-rock band ▪ Flawed, a 2010 film by Andrea Dorfman ▪ "Flawed", a song by Delta Goodrem ▪ Flaw, a Lord of Chaos in the DC Comics universe ▪ Character flaw, a literary device...

Definition of flaw in the English dictionary

The first definition of flaw in the dictionary is an imperfection, defect, or blemish. Other definition of flaw is a crack, breach, or rift. Flaw is also an invalidating fault or defect in a document or proceeding.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLAW

PRESENT

Present

I flaw

you flaw

he/she/it flaws

we flaw

you flaw

they flaw

Present continuous

I am flawing

you are flawing

he/she/it is flawing

we are flawing

you are flawing

they are flawing

Present perfect

I have flawed

you have flawed

he/she/it has flawed

we have flawed

you have flawed

they have flawed

Present perfect continuous

I have been flawing

you have been flawing

he/she/it has been flawing

we have been flawing

you have been flawing

they have been flawing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I flawed

you flawed

he/she/it flawed

we flawed

you flawed

they flawed

Past continuous

I was flawing

you were flawing

he/she/it was flawing

we were flawing

you were flawing

they were flawing

Past perfect

I had flawed

you had flawed

he/she/it had flawed

we had flawed

you had flawed

they had flawed

Past perfect continuous

I had been flawing

you had been flawing

he/she/it had been flawing

we had been flawing

you had been flawing

they had been flawing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will flaw

you will flaw

he/she/it will flaw

we will flaw

you will flaw

they will flaw

Future continuous

I will be flawing

you will be flawing

he/she/it will be flawing

we will be flawing

you will be flawing

they will be flawing

Future perfect

I will have flawed

you will have flawed

he/she/it will have flawed

we will have flawed

you will have flawed

they will have flawed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been flawing

you will have been flawing

he/she/it will have been flawing

we will have been flawing

you will have been flawing

they will have been flawing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would flaw

you would flaw

he/she/it would flaw

we would flaw

you would flaw

they would flaw

Conditional continuous

I would be flawing

you would be flawing

he/she/it would be flawing

we would be flawing

you would be flawing

they would be flawing

Conditional perfect

I would have flaw

you would have flaw

he/she/it would have flaw

we would have flaw

you would have flaw

they would have flaw

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been flawing

you would have been flawing

he/she/it would have been flawing

we would have been flawing

you would have been flawing

they would have been flawing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you flaw
we let´s flaw
you flaw

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to flaw

Past participle

flawed

Present Participle

flawing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «FLAW»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flaw» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of flaw

abscond · avoid · blemish · blunder · bolt · breach · break · cleft · crack · crevice · cut and run · decamp · defect · depart · disfigurement · do a runner · error · escape · failing · fault · fissure · fly · fly the coop · fracture · get away · hook it · howler · imperfection · inaccuracy · leave · make off · mistake · rent · rift · run away · run off · scar · scarper · scission · shun · skedaddle · solecism · speck · split · spot · take a powder · take flight · take off · tear · turn tail · vanish · weak spot · weakness

TRANSLATION OF FLAW

Find out the translation of flaw to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of flaw from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flaw» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 缺点
• Translator English - Spanish: error
• English: flaw
• Translator English - Hindi: दोष
• Translator English - Arabic: عَيْب
• Translator English - Russian: изъян
• Translator English - Portuguese: falha
• Translator English - Bengali: ত্রুটি
• Translator English - French: faille
• Translator English - Malay: Kecacatan
• Translator English - German: Mangel
• Translator English - Japanese: きず
• Translator English - Korean: 결점
• Translator English - Javanese: cacat
• Translator English - Vietnamese: khiếm khuyết
• Translator English - Tamil: குறைபாடு
• Translator English - Marathi: दोष
• Translator English - Turkish: kusur
• Translator English - Italian: pecca
• Translator English - Polish: skaza
• Translator English - Ukrainian: вада
• Translator English - Romanian: eroare
• Translator English - Greek: ψεγάδι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: fout
• Translator English - Swedish: felaktighet
• Translator English - Norwegian: lyte

10 QUOTES WITH «FLAW»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flaw.

1

Jeff Abbott

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

2

Martin Amis

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

3

Diane Arbus

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

4

Desi Arnaz

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

5

Bill Ayers

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

6

Michael Ian Black

Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

7

Harry A. Blackmun

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

8

William J. H. Boetcker

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

9

Madonna Ciccone

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

10

Emile Durkheim

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLAW»

Discover the use of flaw in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flaw and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Fatal Flaw

Some victims deserve nothing less than the truth .

William Lashner, 2009

Fatal Flaw: Book Four of The Fatal Series

When the danger starts to hit a little too close to home, she has two goals: find the elusive murderer and manage to live long enough to enjoy her happily-ever-after. Book 4 of the Fatal series. 98,000 words

Marie Force, 2012

Flaw

Flaw is Tulli’s most intense and personally motivated work to date, while still retaining the signature mind-and word-play so admired by critics and her growing readership.

Magdalena Tulli, 2011

The Critical Flaw

This is a must-read. RALUCA IONITA, Co-Founder and Managing Director AYG Romania. "Dr. Chan paints a bleak picture about the current state of a flawed global financial system.

Alan P. Chan, 2013

The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face ...

Savage argues that this is a problem that must be solved if we are to improve the stability of our economy, and that we cannot repeat the recent mistakes of applying "steam era" statistics to "information age" risks.

Sam L. Savage, 2012

Our Tragic Flaw: A Case for Nonviolence

The logic of violence can, in fact, be transcended through a conscious and intentional process of deepening self-awareness, and a corresponding process of sharing power and increasing collaboration in our social relations.This book is ...

Parke Burgess, 2008

A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw: Stories

An insightful debut collection of short stories traces the fortunes of several American families as they struggle with the difficult circumstances of their lives. Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction. (Story Collections)

Christie Hodgen, 2002

A Flaw in the Blood

From the Hardcover edition.

Stephanie Barron, 2008

The Flaw in the Universe: Natural Disaster and Human Sin

In this book, Adrian Hough uses his training and expertise as both a scientist and a theologian to approach this flaw from both directions and comes up with the astonishing result that both sets of reasoning might have the same fundamental ...

Adrian Hough, 2010

Evolution's Fatal Flaw: The Inevitable Consequence of the ...

Numerous opinion polls, reported from time to time in the daily newspaper, reveal that approximately 40% of Americans believe in Creationism, 40% in Intelligent Design and 20% in Evolution.

Lawrence Wood, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLAW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flaw is used in the context of the following news items.

Apple Finally Fixes The iPhone Keyboard's Worst Flaw In iOS 9

Like, you know, being able to tell if your keyboard is currently set to use capital letters or not. With iOS 9, Apple is finally fixing one of the ... «TechCrunch, Jul 15»

Chrysler to recall 88346 vehicles over air bag flaw

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will recall 88,346 Dodge Challengers to fix a flaw with the driver-side frontal air bag, according to the National ... «Livemint, Jul 15»

Android Backup Flaw Allows Rogue Apps

A vulnerability in the design of the Android backup mechanism has been discovered that allows attackers to inject additional applications ... «Infosecurity Magazine, Jul 15»

Background Check Flaw Let Dylann Roof Buy Gun, FBI Says

WASHINGTON — The man accused of killing nine people in a historically black church in South Carolina last month was able to buy the gun ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

OpenSSL fixes serious flaw that could enable man-in-the-middle …

A flaw in the widely used OpenSSL library could allow man-in-the-middle attackers to impersonate HTTPS servers and snoop on encrypted ... «InfoWorld, Jul 15»

2015 Hyundai Sonata Recalled For Seat Belt Flaw: 140000 Owners …

Hyundai Motor Company is issuing a recall for select Hyundai Sonata sedans from the 2015 model year. According to Auto News, some of ... «The Car Connection, Jul 15»

The getaway vehicle was the single flaw in gun thief's game plan

Gary Elliott, 19, was arrested shortly after someone had ripped a hole in the ceiling of Al's Army Navy store in Orlando, Fla., and -- expertly ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 15»

Flaw found in French nuclear reactor

France's nuclear safety regulator told the BBC the flaw in the steel housing the reactor core at the nuclear plant being built in Normandy is ... «BBC News, Jul 15»

Major Adobe Flash security flaw discovered in Hacking Team leak

Hacking Team describes the Flash flaw as "the most beautiful Flash bug for the last four years," suggesting that the company may have been ... «The Verge, Jul 15»

Impossible to find every flaw: SMRT chief Desmond Kuek

SMRT chief executive Desmond Kuek said the operator will not be able to catch every potential fault even if it stepped up maintenance. "So one ... «The Straits Times, Jul 15»