defect
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
mathematics
military
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin de-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Latin dēficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin dēfectusbor.
English defect
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: defects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: defects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fault or malfunction.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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 suddenly and dramatically low.
Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
gloss: The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
pos: noun
examples: and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.
gloss: A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
pos: noun
gloss: To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.”
gloss: To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
pos: verb
gloss: To join the enemy army.
pos: verb
gloss: To flee one's country and seek asylum.
pos: verb
examples: Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.
Synonyms: defect
fault
flaw
imperfection
shortcoming
drawback
deficiency
inadequacy
peccadillo
sin
Related words: defective
defeat
deficiency
deficient
deficit
error
flawless
Derived words: angular defect
birth defect
bulk defect
CHILD syndrome
congenital heart defect
crystallographic defect
defectible
defectious
defectless
defect of one's qualities
defectology
Frenkel defect
line defect
mass defect
microdefect
organic defect
planar defect
point defect
re-defect
renal dysplasia-limb defects syndrome
Schottky defect
stereodefect
title defect
volume defect
defection
defector
nondefecting
redefect
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