Defect

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defect \De*fect"\, v. i.
     To fail; to become deficient. [Obs.] "Defected honor."
     --Warner.
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     2. to abandon one country or faction, and join another.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defect \De*fect"\, v. t.
     To injure; to damage. "None can my life defect." [R.]
     --Troubles of Q. Elizabeth (1639).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
                                                    --Davies.
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     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.
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              Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know,
              Make use of every friend -- and every foe. --Pope.
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              Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal
              defects.                              --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: Deficiency; imperfection; blemish. See {Fault}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  defect
       n 1: an imperfection in a bodily system; "visual defects"; "this
            device permits detection of defects in the lungs"
       2: a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an
          unfortunate defect of our lack of information" [syn: {shortcoming}]
       3: an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any
          defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" [syn:
           {fault}, {flaw}]
       4: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something
          (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn:
          {blemish}, {mar}]
       v : 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: {desert}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  223 Moby Thesaurus words for "defect":
     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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  defect
       
          {bug}
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEFECT. The want of something required by law. 
       2. It is a general rule that pleadings shall have these two requisites; 
  1. A matter sufficient in law. 2. That it be deduced and expressed according 
  to the forms of law. The want of either of these is a defect. 
       3. Defects in matters of substance cannot be cured, because it does not 
  appear that the plaintiff is entitled to recover; but when the defects are 
  in matter of form, they are cured by a verdict in favor of the party who 
  committed them. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3292; 2 Wash. 1; 1 Hen. & Munf. 153; 16 
  Pick. 128, 541; 1 Day, 315; 4 Conn, 190; 5 Conn. 416; 6 Conn. 176; 12 Conn. 
  455; 1 P. C. C. R. 76; 2 Green, 133; 4 Blackf. 107; 2 M'Lean, 35; Bac. Ab. 
  Verdict, X.