defect
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin de- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- 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”).
- borrowed from defectus
Definitions
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.
- 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.
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.
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To abandon or turn against
To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymdefect
- synonymfault
- synonymflaw
- synonymimperfection
- synonymshortcoming
- synonymdrawback
- synonymdeficiency
- synonyminadequacy
- synonympeccadillo
- synonymsin
- neighbordefective
- neighbordefeat
- neighbordeficiency
- neighbordeficient
- neighbordeficit
- neighborerror
- neighborflawless
- neighborissue
- neighborproblem
- neighborquirk
- neighbortrouble
- neighborblemish
Derived
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
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at defect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at defect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at defect
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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