defect

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/ˈdiːfɛkt/

verb 4noun 3

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(noun.)

ADJ

fundamental, important, major, serious

The car had a serious defect that made the brakes unsafe to use.

minor, slight, small

The car had a minor defect in the engine, so the dealer fixed it for free.

building, mechanical, structural

birth, congenital, genetic

The doctor discovered a genetic defect during the routine pregnancy screening.

eye, heart, physical, sight, speech, visual | character

VERB + DEFECT

contain, have, suffer from

The new car suffered from a manufacturing defect that the dealer fixed for free.

find

The mechanic found a defect in the car's engine during the routine check.

correct, cure, remedy, repair

The mechanic was able to repair the manufacturing defect in the car's engine.

PREP

~ in

The car had a serious defect in the brakes that needed immediate repair.

~ of

The manufacturing team discovered a defect of the new engine during testing.

Definitions

noun

A fault or malfunction.

a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment

Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.

The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.

and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.

A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

verb

To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”

To desert one's army, to flee from combat.

To join the enemy army.

To flee one's country and seek asylum.

Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (espe

noun — a failing or deficiency

shortcoming

noun — an imperfection in an object or machine

verb — desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to jo

desert

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Example Bank

a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment

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Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.

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But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought su

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Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped

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Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.

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To be perfect she lacked just one defect.

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