'Defect' definitions:
Definition of 'defect'
From: WordNet
noun
An imperfection in a bodily system; "visual defects"; "this device permits detection of defects in the lungs"
noun
A failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information" [syn: defect, shortcoming]
noun
An imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" [syn: defect, fault, flaw]
noun
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar]
verb
Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot" [syn: defect, desert]
Definition of 'Defect'
From: GCIDE
- Defect \De*fect"\, v. t. To injure; to damage. "None can my life defect." [R.] --Troubles of Q. Elizabeth (1639). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Defect'
From: GCIDE
- Defect \De*fect"\, n. [L. defectus, fr. deficere, defectum, to desert, fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Deficit.]
- 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. [1913 Webster]
- Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. --Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment. [1913 Webster]
- Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- and every foe. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. --Macaulay.
- Syn: Deficiency; imperfection; blemish. See Fault. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Defect'
From: GCIDE
- Defect \De*fect"\, v. i. To fail; to become deficient. [Obs.] "Defected honor." --Warner. [1913 Webster]
- 2. to abandon one country or faction, and join another. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'defect'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- apostacize,
- apostatize,
- arrearage,
- atrophy,
- back out,
- bacterial disease,
- betray,
- birth defect,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blight,
- blister,
- bolt,
- break,
- break away,
- bug,
- bulla,
- cardiovascular disease,
- catch,
- change sides,
- check,
- chronic disease,
- cicatrix,
- circulatory disease,
- comedo,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- crack,
- crater,
- craze,
- dearth,
- defacement,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- deficiency disease,
- deficit,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- degenerate,
- degenerative disease,
- depart,
- desert,
- disability,
- discontinuity,
- disease,
- disfiguration,
- disfigurement,
- disorder,
- distemper,
- distortion,
- drawback,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- epidemic disease,
- error,
- escape,
- failing,
- failure,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- fault,
- faute,
- flaw,
- foible,
- forsake,
- frailty,
- freckle,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gap,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- go,
- go back on,
- go over,
- handicap,
- hemangioma,
- hereditary disease,
- hiatus,
- hickey,
- hole,
- iatrogenic disease,
- illness,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- indisposition,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- insufficiency,
- interval,
- irregularity,
- keloid,
- kink,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- leave,
- lentigo,
- let down,
- liability,
- little problem,
- malady,
- malaise,
- mark,
- milium,
- miss,
- missing link,
- mistake,
- mole,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- need,
- needle scar,
- neurological disease,
- nevus,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- omission,
- organic disease,
- outage,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- pimple,
- pit,
- plant disease,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- privation,
- problem,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- pull out,
- pustule,
- quit,
- rat,
- reject,
- renegade,
- renege,
- renounce,
- repudiate,
- respiratory disease,
- rift,
- rockiness,
- run out on,
- scab,
- scantiness,
- scar,
- scarceness,
- scarcity,
- scratch,
- sebaceous cyst,
- secede,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- sell out,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- snag,
- something missing,
- split,
- spurn,
- stain,
- strawberry mark,
- sty,
- switch,
- switch over,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- taint,
- tergiversate,
- the pip,
- track,
- turn,
- turn against,
- turn cloak,
- turn traitor,
- twist,
- ullage,
- urogenital disease,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- vice,
- virus disease,
- vulnerable place,
- wale,
- want,
- wantage,
- warp,
- wart,
- wasting disease,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness,
- weal,
- welt,
- wen,
- whitehead,
- withdraw,
- worm disease
Words containing 'Defect'
- Defectibility,
- Defectible,
- Defection,
- Defective,
- Defectively,
- Defectiveness,
- birth defect,
- congenital defect,
- defect of speech,
- defective number,
- defective pleading,
- genetic defect,
- mass defect,
- mental defectiveness,
- septal defect,
- speech defect,
- vision defect,
- visual defect,
- atrial septal defect,
- autosomal recessive defect,
- congenital heart defect,
- ventricular septal defect