Defect
noun
A problem or fault in something.
The car has a major defect in its braking system.
Often appears as...
- major defect
- minor defect
verb
To leave a country, political party, etc., especially to go somewhere or join something else.
He defected from the party when he didn't agree with the party's policies.
Often appears as...
- defect to the enemy
- defect from the party
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Disapproving
noun
An imperfection in a person's body or mind.
He was born with a heart defect.
Often appears as...
- birth defect
- genetic defect
noun
A problem or fault in something.
The car has a major defect in its braking system.
Often appears as...
- major defect
- minor defect
verb
To leave a country, political party, etc., especially to go somewhere or join something else.
He defected from the party when he didn't agree with the party's policies.
Often appears as...
- defect to the enemy
- defect from the party
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
An imperfection in a person's body or mind.
He was born with a heart defect.
Often appears as...
- birth defect
- genetic defect
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies something undesirable or unwanted in an object or system.
The smartphone was returned due to a screen defect.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Severity
'Defect' can suggest varying levels of severity, from minor to critical.
A minor defect in the paintwork doesn't affect the car's performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Some defects are not immediately apparent and may be discovered later.
After a week, we noticed a defect in the TV's sound quality.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies something undesirable or unwanted in an object or system.
The smartphone was returned due to a screen defect.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Severity
'Defect' can suggest varying levels of severity, from minor to critical.
A minor defect in the paintwork doesn't affect the car's performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Some defects are not immediately apparent and may be discovered later.
After a week, we noticed a defect in the TV's sound quality.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies something undesirable or unwanted in an object or system.
The smartphone was returned due to a screen defect.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Severity
'Defect' can suggest varying levels of severity, from minor to critical.
A minor defect in the paintwork doesn't affect the car's performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Some defects are not immediately apparent and may be discovered later.
After a week, we noticed a defect in the TV's sound quality.
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Emma Teeling: The secret...
is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease. So bats are also important for our health,
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Why do we love? A...
Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire
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How to read the genome...
And it was a very emotional moment. What you see here is a subject coming in our lab. This is a face for us. So we take the real face of a subject, we reduce the complexity, because not everything is in your face -- lots of features and defects and asymmetries come from your life.
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Explosive 9/11 Claims PIPE...
towers exposes a major defect in the controlled demolition theory the elevator upgrade referred to by truthers might have provided access to the core columns but a large demolition team would still have needed to work in secret to break through the gypsum board walls
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String theory - Brian...
to calculate the effect of gravity he had been unable to figure out how it really works how is it that the Sun 93 million miles away somehow defect the motion of the earth how does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence and that as a task to a
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How one scientist...
and by fall, they’d unmasked a more horrible truth. Thalidomide, widely used by pregnant women, caused severe birth defects. Thousands of babies died in utero, and tens of thousands more were born with extra appendages, shorter limbs, or no limbs at all.
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What if 3D printing was...
One, 3D printing takes forever. There are mushrooms that grow faster than 3D printed parts. The layer by layer process leads to defects in mechanical properties, and if we could grow continuously, we could eliminate those defects.
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What it's really like to...
naturally part of a human spectrum and not as defects. And this is something that I agree to completely. If autism was seen as part of a natural human spectrum, then the world could be designed to work better for autistic people.
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My photographs bear...
thereby making women's bodies an instrument of state economic policy. Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages. Children with birth defects were labeled incurables,
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Anne-Marie Slaughter:...
that companies are starting to look at prospective male employees and raise an eyebrow if they didn't in fact take their leave when they had kids. That means that it's starting to seem like a character defect
Video examples
Emma Teeling: The secret...
is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease. So bats are also important for our health,
Video examples
Why do we love? A...
Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire
Video examples
How to read the genome...
And it was a very emotional moment. What you see here is a subject coming in our lab. This is a face for us. So we take the real face of a subject, we reduce the complexity, because not everything is in your face -- lots of features and defects and asymmetries come from your life.
Video examples
Explosive 9/11 Claims PIPE...
towers exposes a major defect in the controlled demolition theory the elevator upgrade referred to by truthers might have provided access to the core columns but a large demolition team would still have needed to work in secret to break through the gypsum board walls
Video examples
String theory - Brian...
to calculate the effect of gravity he had been unable to figure out how it really works how is it that the Sun 93 million miles away somehow defect the motion of the earth how does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence and that as a task to a
Video examples
How one scientist...
and by fall, they’d unmasked a more horrible truth. Thalidomide, widely used by pregnant women, caused severe birth defects. Thousands of babies died in utero, and tens of thousands more were born with extra appendages, shorter limbs, or no limbs at all.
Video examples
What if 3D printing was...
One, 3D printing takes forever. There are mushrooms that grow faster than 3D printed parts. The layer by layer process leads to defects in mechanical properties, and if we could grow continuously, we could eliminate those defects.
Video examples
What it's really like to...
naturally part of a human spectrum and not as defects. And this is something that I agree to completely. If autism was seen as part of a natural human spectrum, then the world could be designed to work better for autistic people.
Video examples
My photographs bear...
thereby making women's bodies an instrument of state economic policy. Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages. Children with birth defects were labeled incurables,
Video examples
Anne-Marie Slaughter:...
that companies are starting to look at prospective male employees and raise an eyebrow if they didn't in fact take their leave when they had kids. That means that it's starting to seem like a character defect
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
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Hugo Chavez
Statesman
I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.
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Lou Holtz
American Coach
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.
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Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
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Francois Fenelon
French Clergyman
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
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Voltaire
French Writer
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Quentin Blake
English Cartoonist
Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Quote examples
Hugo Chavez
Statesman
I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.
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Lou Holtz
American Coach
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.
Quote examples
Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
Quote examples
Francois Fenelon
French Clergyman
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
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Voltaire
French Writer
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Quentin Blake
English Cartoonist
Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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