defect — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A fault or malfunction.

   Beispiele

   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.

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   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.

2. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.

   Beispiele

   and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.

3. A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

Verb

1. To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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.”

2. To desert one's army, to flee from combat.

3. To join the enemy army.

4. To flee one's country and seek asylum.

   Beispiele

   Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.

Substantiv

1. an imperfection in a bodily system

   Oberbegriffe

   imperfectionimperfectness

   Beispiele

   visual defects

   this device permits detection of defects in the lungs

2. a failing or deficiency

   Synonyme

   shortcoming

   Oberbegriffe

   disadvantage

   Beispiele

   that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information

3. an imperfection in an object or machine

   Synonyme

   faultflaw

   Oberbegriffe

   imperfectionimperfectness

   Beispiele

   a flaw caused the crystal to shatter

   if there are any defects, you should send it back to the manufacturer

4. a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

   Synonyme

   blemishmar

   Oberbegriffe

   appearancevisual aspect

   Beispiele

   a facial blemish

Verb

1. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

   Synonyme

   desert

   Oberbegriffe

   fleeflytake flight

   Beispiele

   If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot