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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatindefectus(“a failure, lack”), fromdeficere(“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participledefectus, fromde-(“of, from”) +facere(“to do”).

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Noun

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defect (pluraldefects)

  1. Afault ormalfunction.
    adefect in the ear or eye; adefect in timber or iron; adefect of memory or judgment
    • 1856 February,[Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, inT[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor,The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London:Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published1871,→OCLC:
      Among boys little tenderness is shown to personaldefects.
    • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎[1]:
      But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred throughAristotle'sPoetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a tellingdefect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide‎[2], page 4:
      Another majordefect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
  2. Thequantity oramount by which anything fallsshort.
  3. (mathematics) Apart by which afigure or quantity iswanting or deficient.

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Collocations

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Adjectives often used with "defect"
  • major, minor, serious, cosmetic, functional, critical, fatal, basic, fundamental, main, primary, principal, radical, inherent

Translations

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fault or malfunction

Verb

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defect (third-person singular simple presentdefects,present participledefecting,simple past and past participledefected)

  1. (intransitive) Toabandon orturn against; tocease or change one'sloyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
    • 2013 May 23,Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, inNew York Times, retrieved29 May 2013:
      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 todefect. 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. (military) Todesert one'sarmy, toflee fromcombat.
  3. (military) Tojoin theenemy army.
  4. (law) Toflee one'scountry andseekasylum.
    • 2015 August 15, Choe Sang-Hun, “A North Korean Defector’s Regret”, inThe New York Times‎[3], retrieved20 September 2015:
      Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing todefect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.

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Translations

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to abandon; to change one's loyalty
to desert; to flee combat
to join the enemy
to flee one's country and seek asylum

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatindēfectus,dēfectum.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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defect (comparativedefecter,superlativedefectst)

  1. broken, notworking
    Synonyms:kapot,stuk,kaduuk

Declension

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Declension ofdefect
uninflecteddefect
inflecteddefecte
comparativedefecter
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialdefectdefecterhetdefectst
hetdefectste
indefinitem./f. sing.defectedefecteredefectste
n. sing.defectdefecterdefectste
pluraldefectedefecteredefectste
definitedefectedefecteredefectste
partitivedefectsdefecters—

Descendants

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Noun

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defect n (pluraldefecten,diminutivedefectje n)

  1. adefect

Descendants

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatindefectus orGermanDefekt.

Adjective

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defect m orn (feminine singulardefectă,masculine pluraldefecți,feminine/neuter pluraldefecte)

  1. defective

Declension

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Declension ofdefect
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative		indefinitedefectdefectădefecțidefecte
definitedefectuldefectadefecțiidefectele
genitive-
dative		indefinitedefectdefectedefecțidefecte
definitedefectuluidefecteidefecțilordefectelor

Noun

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defect n (pluraldefecte)

  1. defect

Declension

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singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativedefectdefectuldefectedefectele
genitive-dativedefectdefectuluidefectedefectelor
vocativedefectuledefectelor
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