Skip to main content

default

/dih-fawlt, dee-fawlt/US // dɪˈfɔlt, ˈdiˌfɔlt //UK // (dɪˈfɔːlt) //

违约,默认的,违约金,默认

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : failure to act; inaction or neglect: They lost their best client by sheer default.
    • : Finance. failure to meet financial obligations, as when a borrower misses or stops making monthly loan payments.
    • : Law. failure to perform an act or obligation legally required, especially to appear in court or to plead at a time assigned.
    • : Sports. failure to arrive in time for, participate in, or complete a scheduled game, race, etc.
    • : lack; want; absence.
    • : Computers. a value that a program or operating system assumes, or a course of action that a program or operating system will take, when the user or programmer specifies no overriding value or action.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fail in fulfilling or satisfying an engagement, claim, or obligation.
    • : to fail to meet financial obligations or to account properly for money in one's care: When he defaulted in his payments, the bank foreclosed on the car.
    • : Law. to fail to appear in court.
    • : Sports. to fail to participate in or complete a scheduled game, race, etc.to lose a scheduled game, race, etc., by default.
    • : Computers. to assume a preset value or take a preselected action unless otherwise instructed by the user or programmer: Your profile defaults to public unless you set the permissions to private.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fail to perform or pay: to default a debt.
    • : to declare to be in default, especially legally: The judge defaulted the defendant.
    • : Law. to lose by failure to appear in court.
    • : Sports. to fail to compete in.to lose by default.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfailure; want
Antonyms

Examples

  • Wherever possible, work from home should still be the default while we try to contain the virus.

  • Elsewhere, mobile browsers including UC Browser, Brave, Opera Mini and Adblock Browser block ads by default.

  • Rich results are the details that appear in addition to the default blue links and text descriptions.

  • The only two options were nofollow links or dofollow links, the latter being the default for all hyperlinks.

  • What is less known though, is that Google updated the default segment “Performed Site Search” from “sessions” to “users” not long ago.

  • Are we all so stuck in our roles that when a given issue comes up, we just default to type?

  • We should expect the default to be civility, not harassment.

  • The typical trend is for writers and actors to default to the crudest element of what makes their show work, and lean on that.

  • Out of the box, the device is set to a default statistical mode, but within a week, the monitor gets more accurate.

  • There was no threat of default, government shutdown, huge cuts in government spending, or sharp tax increases.

  • In default of both, I expect to go to jail, and I am ready to start upon one moment's warning.

  • In default of the usual bazaars OLeary had returned with the spoils of half a dozen pawn-shops.

  • I hitched the horse to my improvised drag and smoothed it again, several times, in default of a roller.

  • Before the letters arrived in London, a default had already been recorded.

  • He was perpetually giving an account of it to his own soul in default of other listeners.