Definition of "default"

default

/dɪˈfɔːlt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural defaults
1. (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
2. (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
3. (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
4. A loss incurred by failing to compete.
5. A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
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  One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.
  2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian‎
  Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as the default language.
  2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, page 6
6. (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
7. (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
8. (obsolete) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires.
9. (obsolete) Lack; absence.
  Quotations
  one was dragging a great coat from the window, before which it had long hung as a blind, in total default of glass or shutters
  1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], page 156
10. (obsolete) Fault; offence; wrong act.
  Quotations
  regardless of our merit or default
  1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd
verb
third-person singular simple present defaults, present participle defaulting, simple past and past participle defaulted
1. (intransitive) To fail to meet an obligation.
  1. (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
  2. (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
2. (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
3. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
  Quotations
  It defaults your application to Windows authentication mode, and if you want to use forms mode, you can just change it in the authentication section of the file.
  2002, Tony Martin, Dominic Selly, Visual Basic .NET at Work: Building 10 Enterprise Projects, page 346

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