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Defect
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- 1 A fault or malfunction.
"a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment"
- 2 a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) wordnet
- 3 The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
"and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture."
- 4 a failing or deficiency wordnet
- 5 A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
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- 6 an imperfection in a bodily system wordnet
- 7 an imperfection in an object or machine wordnet
- 1 To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party. intransitive
"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.”"
- 2 desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army wordnet
- 3 To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
- 4 To join the enemy army.
- 5 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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).
Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).
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