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defect English

Meaning defect meaning

What does defect mean?
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defect Noun

— A defect in something is a mistake or problem that makes the thing not perfect. This gem has a defect, so it is not worth much. — A defect is something that is not perfect.

defect Verb

— If you defect from a group or country, you leave it and join a different side. In 1961, defected from Russia.

defect

— noun an imperfection in a bodily system visual defects this device permits detection of defects in the lungs — noun a failing or deficiency that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information — noun (= flaw) an imperfection in an object or machine a flaw caused the crystal to shatter if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer — noun (= blemish) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) a facial blemish — verb (= desert) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot

Synonyms defect synonyms

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defect English » English

fault flaw blemish deficiency shortcoming imperfection drawback failing lack disadvantage desert damage weakness want impairment error failure weak point vice shortage gap demerit absence stain mistake loss harm blot hurt frailty scar omission mar malfunction injury inadequacy glitch feebleness bug blame bad quality weak spot trouble taint stigma spot slur scarcity objection macula

Topics defect topics

What do people use defect to talk about?
Person Healthy Disabled

Birth defect
Person Healthy

Cause of disease

Conjugation defect conjugation

How do you conjugate defect?

defect · verb

Examples defect examples

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Simple sentences

To be perfect she lacked just one defect.
If it were not for this defect, I should hire him at once.
Why have you not inquired about the cause of the defect?
You cannot defect to another country unless you can travel there.
One of Sherlock Holmes's defects-if, indeed, one may call it a defect-was that he was exceedingly loth to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment.
There must be a defect in the experimental method.
A quick temper is the only defect in her character.

Movie subtitles

What defect do you find in them?
The doctor pretended to find him a heart defect, which required a quiet, restful existence.
That defect list and list of spares for Exeter that I asked you to get out and send to base.
Tell your ships' companies they've got to be on their toes for the next few days. Search for any defect that might reduce fighting efficiency and have it dealt with.
Maybe he has some other defect!
There's a defect in the alarm system - Yeah?
I first thought the machine had a mechanical defect.
But if I defect. you know what they will do to my family?
Has she got any physically defect?
I've got a physical defect.
When she contacted Kerim Bey, head of Station T, Turkey and told him she wanted to defect, she said she'd turn it over to us.
There's a defect on the back.
A defect of some kind, most likely.
So for the comic, the make-up artist deepens a wrinkle. He accentuates a defect.
When she contacted Kerim Bey, head of Station T, Turkey, and told him she wanted to defect, she said she'd turn it over to us.
Defect of some kind, most likely.
I'm going to get some German officers to defect to us, send them to England to organize the German prisoners there into a new fighting force.
I'll get you out of Germany. We cannot defect.
I wish to defect.
You sure you still want to defect?
Colonel Stok, if I need to defect.
Listen, I would defect, but I don't know where to defect to.
A complaint from one of our most important customers in Mexico has revealed to me a possible defect in the Marlborough Mark 3 engine mounting.
How should I know? Maybe he has some other defect!
It's either a virtue or a defect of our judiciary system.
Has she got any physically defect? Why no, of course not.
Included here are adultery committed by husband or wife, a physical defect of either husband or wife.
There is no physical defect, I may assume?
My greatest defect is to try to confirm my first impressions.
People defect.
They defect from one side to the other.
Doctor, do you propose surgery for the heart defect?
Two officers wanted to defect to the Reds from Wrangel, but those Makhnovists have shot them anyway, and they'll shoot us too.
There appears to be some defect in the control panel.

News and current affairs

Both research teams describe how the use of a chemical inhibitor can kill tumor cells that have either a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene defect causing hereditary breast cancer.
Clearly, couples carrying a transmissible genetic defect and otherwise requiring IVF should be offered the option of PGD, and if necessary, referral to a center that can perform this specialized procedure.
If the proposed subsidies in France and Germany have a defect, it is not that they are unnecessary, but that they do not go far enough.
The regime even dispatched two spies to Seoul to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, the highest-level North Korean official ever to defect to South Korea.
Europeans can supply this defect.
For example, one kind of colon cancer develops more frequently in individuals who have a defect in a system that repairs damaged genes.
The incompetence of the governments that implemented the agreement exacerbates that defect by sidelining structural reforms and enacting only the terms concerning austerity.

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