flaw

Senso (English)

Verb

1. To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
2. To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
2. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
3. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
4. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
5. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.

Noun

1. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
2. A storm of short duration.
3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder

Synonyms

defect

fault

blemish

imperfection

shortcoming

deficiency

error

crack

mistake

shortage

impairment

failing

lack

stain

gap

want

blot

weakness

loss

damage

hurt

harm

absence

weak point

drawback

fissure

taint

spot

failure

disadvantage

discrepancy

hole

🕳️

impurity

weak spot

lapse

mar

vice

frailty

wart

rupture

deprivation

leak

rent

wrinkle

injury

blunder

feebleness

cracking

crevice

detriment

scarcity

revoke

rift

scar

shortcomings

shortfall

shortness

slit

slot

smear

smudge

soil

speck

split

stumble

tear

wicked

wrong

windflaw

scratches on a gem

security flaw

tear fault

aberration

tiar

birthmark

blame

blooper

bobble

breach

breakdown

bug

🐛

burst

chap

check

chink

cleft

clink

cracked

crackle

craze

crazing

dearth

default

degrade

demerit

destitution

disgrace

disorder

dysfunction

erroneous

falling

false

fluff

foible

foul

fracture

gall

gash

glitch

handicap

honeycomb

inadequacy

insufficiency

kink

macula

malfunction

mark

misplay

miss

need

neediness

potsherd

privation

reproach

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/flɔː/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: flawe

Cognate with islandese: flaga

Cognate with svedese: flaga

Cognate with danese: flage

Cognate with Middle Low German: vlage

Cognate with inglese antico: flōh

Inherited from inglese medio: *flaugh

Cognate with olandese: vlaag

In summary

From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”).
Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).