fallo-1
breakdown ; failing ; failure ; fault ; flaw ; malfunction ; pitfall ; slip ; dysfunction ; miss ; crash ; slip-up ; error ; weakness ; drawback.
Moreover, it would have been subject to frequent breakdown, for at that time and long after complexity and unreliability were synonymous.
No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.
DBMS systems aim to cope with system failure and generate restart procedures.
Documents and information can be lost forever by faults in inputting.
The author lists 10 advantages of procuring the journals through STC, but counterbalances these by listing 14 flaws in the corporation's organisation.
All users are charged direct search costs plus an overhead for each request to allow for indirect costs (labour, hardware, software, training, system malfunction).
Nevertheless, it is worth drawing a comparison between them so that menu-based information retrieval systems might avoid some of the pitfalls of traditional classification.
Put a set of premises into such a device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion after conclusion with no more slips that would be expected of a keyboard adding machine.
Dysfunctions in performance were chiefly attributable to user failure to locate books (bad signposting and disappearance of stock through theft).
But the costs that I've seen so far aren't worth it for what it gets for our patrons, that is, the number of misses we can afford compared to the costs of making sure people don't miss.
In addition, programmers may not always anticipate all the mistakes which can be made, and so crashes occur anyway, though under more limited circumstances.
Minor slip-ups are things like - your fly is undone while giving a presentation, you accidentally let out an audible burp at a work luncheon, wardrobe malfunctions, you pass gas.
Computers are reliable, and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.
The strengths and weaknesses of natural language indexing derive from this basic characteristic.
The drawbacks of this form are its limited flexibility, and the time taken in maintenance.
a prueba de fallos
fail-safe
The technical safeguards available are not fail-safe.
arreglar un fallo
fix + fault
The library staff involved in the day to day running of the library may be called upon quite often to fix certain minor faults or clear up problems and misunderstandings on the part of the user.
cometer un fallo
make + mistake
commit + error
make + error
be caught out
slip up
When mistakes have been made in invoicing or in paying a vendor, a credit or debit note is issued.
Let us perform a simple thought experiment: assume that a cataloger has committed a simple transposition error and transcribed YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER as YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.
This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
All librarians can tell tales of being caught out in this way, to learn of their error only when the answer has been produced: information on dance-halls when dinosaurs was asked for, or on the grey starling when something on Grace Darling was what was wanted = Todos los bibliotecarios pueden contar historias de cuando han metido la pata de este modo para aprender del error sólo cuando se ha producido la respuesta: información sobre los salones de baile cuando se preguntaba por los dinosaurios, o sobre el estornino gris cuando se quería algo sobre Grace Darling.
He knew that if he slipped up again, he could be shipped to a higher-security prison and lose many of his privileges.
detectar un fallo
detect + fault
Some knowledge of mechanics will also make it easier to detect faults and to discuss them sensibly when a mechanic has to be called in = Además, cierto conocimiento de mecánica hará que sea más fácil detectar los fallos y discutirlos con sensatez cuando haya que llamar a un mecánico.
fallo cardíaco
heart attack
heart failure
He'll get an ulcer or a heart attack if he doesn't watch out.
The range of medical emergencies can include heart failure, airway blockage, epileptic fits, lacerations and other types of serious injury.
fallo de vestuario [Eufemismo utilizado para describir la situación en la que accidentalmente una persona revela alguna parte íntima de su cuerpo debido a un defecto de la vestimenta que lleva ]
wardrobe malfunction
Minor slip-ups are things like - your fly is undone while giving a presentation, you accidentally let out an audible burp at a work luncheon, wardrobe malfunctions, you pass gas.
fallo mecánico
machine failure
Supplement 1 contains a list of machine failures = El suplemento 1 contiene una lista de fallos mecánicos.
sin fallos
flawlessly
Overall the drive was judged to perform flawlessly and well beyond what was expected by the reviewer.
tener fallos
be flawed
A small but signifiant portion of the scientific literature is being flawed by the appearance of fraudulently produced research.
