Defect

Definition: Defect

Defect

Noun

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".

3. An imperfection in a device or machine; "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); "a facial blemish".

Verb

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "defect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Chemistry

Food & Agriculture

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Defect

Blemish

Noun: blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism; flaw, defect; (imperfection) ; injury; (deterioration); spots on the sun; eyesore.

Decrement

Noun: decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction; waste.

Imperfection

Verb: be imperfect; Adjective: have a defect; Noun: lie under a disadvantage; spring a leak.

Fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw; (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side.

Incompleteness

Defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval; break; (discontinuity); noncompletion; missing link.

Vice

Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.

Crosswords: Defect

Dutch (broken, broken down, damage, damaged, out of order), Romanian (defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, infelicity, lame, shortcoming, ulcer, vice, want, weakness).

I wish to defect, but there are conditions (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones)

You sure you want to defect tomorrow (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones)

Cause N' Defect (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Defect and Impurity Engineered Semiconductors and Devices: Symposium Held April 17-21, 1995, San Francisco, California, U.S.a (Symp. B.: Symposium h (reference)

• Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Growth, Processing and Device Technology: Symposium Held April 26-May 1, 1992, San Francisco, California, U.S.a (reference)

• Defects and Diffusion in Semiconductors: An Annual Retrospective IV (Defect and Diffusion Forum) (reference)

• Defects and Properties of Semiconductors: Defect Engineering (Advances in Solid State Technology) (reference)

• In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Defect And Diffusion Forum - Part A C-w Diffusion & Defect D (reference)

• Diffusion And Defect Data Part A: Defect And Diffusion Forum (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Fabrication Defect (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a white nude mouse. The mouse is being held in the rubber-gloved hand of a technician. Nude mice, because of a genetic defect, have no thymus and cannot make certain cells essential for various immune responses. Because of this, they are extremely helpful to scientists working in Immunology Research. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

VACTERL association or a nonrandom association of specific newborn abnormalities include to name a few, vertebral dysgenesis, anal defect, cardiac anomalies, tracheoesophageal fistulae, esophageal atresia, radial limb and renal anomalies. Credit: CDC.

A serious defect. Credit: Library of Congress.

The defect of all the angry novels was that they overreached themselves. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kiowa, Kansas. At Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail detector car. These cars are actually travelling scientific instruments, which not only detect faulty rails but also record the place and extent of the defect. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And so lunatics and idiots are never set free from the government of their parents; children, who are not as yet come unto those years whereat they may have; and innocents which are excluded by a natural defect from ever having; thirdly, madmen, which for the present cannot possibly have the use of right reason to guide themselves, have for their guide, the reason that guideth other men which are tutors over them, to seek and procure their good for them, says Hooker, Eccl. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Certainly, there was no physical defect.

All his qualities had a defect.

Yet I am of opinion this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition

Lady Croom: It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

DiGeorge Anomaly is the result of a birth defect. (references)

Boys with the defect die shortly before or after birth. (references)

One genetic defect blocks activation of B cells and T cells. (references)

Human Rights

Hungary

A government autopsy concluded that the cause of death was a congenital heart defect. (references)

Afghanistan

In October there were credible reports that Taliban troops fired rockets into the middle of a crowded bazaar killing 2 civilians and injuring 16. There were unconfirmed reports in November that foreign Taliban soldiers killed approximately 400 Afghan Taliban soldiers attempting to defect to the Northern Alliance in the city of Kunduz. (references)

Trade

Korea

Customs clearance procedures were simplified by the revision of the Customs Act and its Enforcement Decree in December 1995. The import license system was replaced by the import declaration system so that an import declaration filed without defect is immediately accepted for release of goods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "defect": allowable defect ♦ Aortopulmonary Septal Defect ♦ atrial septal defect ♦ autosomal recessive defect ♦ birth defect ♦ cardiac defect ♦ character defect ♦ congenital defect ♦ congenital heart defect ♦ crystal defect ♦ defect analysis ♦ defect density ♦ defect electron ♦ defect in character ♦ defect of vision ♦ genetic defect ♦ have a defect ♦ hearing defect ♦ interstitial defect ♦ latent defect ♦ mass defect ♦ open defect ♦ patent defect ♦ permissible defect ♦ physical defect ♦ redhibitory defect ♦ remedy a defect ♦ Schottky defect ♦ septal defect ♦ slight defect ♦ speech defect ♦ structural defect ♦ valvular defect ♦ ventricular septal defect ♦ vision defect ♦ visual defect ♦ without defect. Additional references.

Beginning with "defect": defect-free.

Ending with "defect": re-defect.

Albanian

defekt (blowing, failing, fault, handicap, hole), dëmtim (damnification, defacement, deterioration, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, failure, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, lesion, Mar, wound), xanxë (vice), ves (habit, immorality, kink, problem, vice), e metë (blemish, deficit, demerit, disfigurement, failing, fault, feebleness, flaw, handicap, limitations, shortcoming, weakness), cen (blemish, blot, deficit, demerit, disablement, disfigurement, flaw, imperfection, malformation, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مأخذ (weakness), ‏تخلى عن حزبه, ‏علة عيب (blemish, deficiency, flaw), ‏ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, decrepitude, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ‏خلل (acetify, blemish, deficiency, disorder, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, pickle, preserve, souse, trouble), ‏إرتد ينشق, ‏شائبة (blot, blotch, imperfection, impurity, wrinkle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

грешка (blooper, blunder, boss, break, demerit, dereliction, error, fault, inaccuracy, inexactitude, lapse, misdoing, misstep, mistake, muff, slip up, slipping, snafu), недостатък (blemish, debit, deficiency, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, kink, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness), липса (absence, default, deficiency, failure, lack, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage, want), порок (iniquity, vice), повреда (breakdown, conk, damage, failure, fault, flaw, hurt, injury, lesion, mischief, scathe, trouble), дефект (blemish, demerit, fault, imperfection, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Chinese 

過失 (fault), 病 (ailment, disease, fall ill, illness, sick, sickness), 疵 (blemish, flaw), 瑕疵 (Defective), 毛病 (fault, shortcomings). (various references)

Czech

dezertovat (desert), defekt (breakdown), vada (altercation, blemish, failing, fault, hole, imperfection, inadequacy, vice), porucha (breakdown, bug, derangement, disorder, failure, fault, lesion), přebìhnout (run across, run over), nedostatek (absence, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want), kaz (blemish, fault, flaw, hole, rot), chyba (errata, error, failing, fault, inadequacy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up). (various references)

Danish

defekt (damage), skavank, mangel (absence, deficiency, lack, shortage, shortcoming), krystal-defekt (crystal defect), knaek (chine, kink), fejl (aberration, error, mistake). (various references)

Dutch

defect (broken, broken down, damage, damaged, out of order), onvolkomenheid (blemish, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, inferiority), kristaldefect (crystal defect), knik (break, buckle, buckling, crease, fraction, kink, knuckle, salient point), gebreken (defects of wines, degrade, disorders, disturbances, fault, flaw, troubles), gebrek (absence, damage, deficiency, lack, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, vice), fout (aberration, erroneous, error, incorrect, mistake, mistaken, wrong), afwijking (aberrance, aberration, abnormality). (various references)

Farsi 

معیوب ساختن (Vitiate), مرتدشدن , نقص (Blemish, Deficiency, Handicap, Incompetence), کاستی (Shortcoming), ترک کردن (Desert, Disuse, Evacuate, Leave, Pullout, Relinquish), عیب (Blot, Gall, Taint, Vice), اهو (Asthma). (various references)

Finnish

vika (deficiency, fault, flaw), puute (deficiency, deprivation, failing, lack, shortage, shortcoming, want). (various references)

French

tare (devil-fish), imperfection, défaut (deficiency). (various references)

German

defekt (broken, corrupted, damaged, defective, deficiency, failure, fault, faulty, flaw, malfunction, out of order), schaden (damage, damaging, derogate, detriment, disadvantage, disadvantages, disservice, fault, harm, hurt, impair, injure, injury, loss, mischief, prejudice, to derogate), mangel (absence, dearth, default, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want), fehler (aberration, absence, blemish, bug, deficiency, demerits, error, failing, fault, flaw, flaws, lack, lapse, misstep, mistake, mistakes, nonconformance, shortage, shortcoming, slip, slipup, solecism, trip, vise). (various references)

Greek 

ελάττωμα (blemish, deficiency, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming, vice), αποστατώ (renegade), ατέλεια (blemish, deficiency, fault, flaw, imperfection, imperfectness, incompleteness, shortcoming, sketchiness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מום (blemish, deformity, disability, fault, impediment, maim, mutilation), מאום (something), מ�'רעת (demerit, disadvantage, fault, shortcoming), לקוי (blemish, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), לקות (blemish, eclipse), ל� שור (drop, fall), פ�'ימ�" (notch, waning), פ�'ם (blemish, blot, fault, flaw, impair, imperfection, notch, shortcoming, weakness), חסרון (deficiency, disadvantage, drawback, loss, omission, shortcoming, want). (various references)

Hungarian

hiányosság (blemish, deficiency, fault, flaw, incompleteness, incompletion, insufficiency, scantiness), tökéletlenség (deficiency, failing, immaturity, imperfection). (various references)

Indonesian

kerusakan (decay, detriment, ravage), kekhilafan, cela (blemish, disgrace, flaw, short coming), cacat (deficiency, disability, flawed, impair, malformation, physical defect). (various references)

Italian

tara (discount, taint, tare), difetto (blemish, bug, damage, dearth, default, deficiency, desideratum, detriment, disadvantages, disservice, failure, fault, flaw, harm, lack, Miss, shortage, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

藍褸 (fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), 襤褸 (fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), 難 (difficulty, hardships), 短所　 (demerit, weak point), 短所 (demerit, disadvantage, weak point), 粗 (blemish, flaw, weak point), 疵瑕 (blemish, flaw), 瑕疵 (blemish, flaw), 瑕 (blemish, flaw, weak point), � 陥　 (deficiency, fault), � 陥 (deficiency, fault), � 点　 (faults, weakness), � 点 (faults, weakness), 不備 (deficiency, imperfection, inadequacy, Yours in haste). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

た�"しょ (a clue, beginning, demerit, disadvantage, start, weak point), きず (blemish, bruise, cut, flaw, gash, hurt, injury, scar, scratch, weak point, wound), な�" (difficulty, hardships, south, what), しか (blemish, current price, deer, dentistry, flaw, furlough, historian, Japanesepoetry, leave of absence, market price, one's own house, price of paper, price of silk thread, private house, the teacher's home), ぼろ (fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), ふび (deficiency, imperfection, inadequacy, Yours in haste), かし (apparent death, asphyxiation, being granted, blemish, evergreen oak, Fahrenheit, false tooth, filament, fish market, flaw, granting, imperial grant, lending, loan, lower extremities, noncommissioned officer, pastry, river bank, riverside, song lyrics, the legs, visibility, words of a song), あら (blemish, flaw, weak point), ら�"る (fault, rag, run-down or junky, scrap, tattered clothes), けっか�" (blood vessel, deficiency, fault), けって�" (faults, weakness). (various references)

Manx

treigeil (abandon, betray, departure, desert, deviation, evacuate, evacuation, fall away, forsake; repudiation, jilt, lay aside, maroon, rat on, repudiate, strand, throw over), lheamys (blemish, default, deformity, different, fault, flaw, imperfection), foill (blame, fault, flaw, foible, imperfection, vice). (various references)

Norwegian

mangel (absence, deficiency, flaw, lack), hoppe av, feil (aberration, error, fault, flaw, lapse, mistake). (various references)

Pig Latin

efectday.(various references)

Portuguese

imperfeição (acerbity, failing, lameness, roughness, shortcoming), falha (absence, brack, break, fail, fault, imperfection, lack, miss, muff, rift, rub, shortcoming), defeito (aberration, abuse, blemish, blister, blot, bug, error, failing, frailty, imperfection, malformation, mistake, shortcoming, taint, vice, weakness). (various references)

Romanian

diformitate (crookedness, deformity, disfigurement, malformation), deranjament (damage, derangement, disorder), defect (deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, infelicity, lame, shortcoming, ulcer, vice, want, weakness), smintealã (damage, Folly, harm, hindrance, lunacy, madness, mistake, shortcoming), slãbiciune (debility, decrepitude, droop, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, infirmity, languor, leanness, liking, propensity, shortcoming, tenuity, weakness), scãdere (abstraction, decline, decrease, deduction, deficiency, degression, derogation, diminution, drawback, drop, fall, lessening, reduction, remission, shortcoming, subtraction), ponos (blame, damage, drawback, hint, trouble), neajuns (deficiency, difficulty, drawback, lack, mischief, out, shortcoming, trouble), meteahnã (disease, hobby, sin, trouble, weakness), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), imperfecţiune (flaw, imperfection, lameness), greşealã (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blunder, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, lapse, miscarriage, mistake, rub, shortcoming, sin, slip, trespass, wrong), cusur (blemish, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, foible, shortcoming, vice, weakness), codiţã (flourish, shortcoming, sycophant), beteşug (affliction, drawback). (various references)

Russian 

нехватка (dearth, deficit, failure, shortage, shortages, shortfall, wantage), недостаток (blemish, dearth, default, deficiency, demerit, destitution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, failure, fault, flaw, lack, letdown, minus, objection, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vice, want), порок (fault, vice), перебегать дефект дефектный, изъян (cockle, fault, flaw), дефект (fault, takeoff). (various references)

Scottish

lochd (a fault, blemish, evil, harm, mischief), gaoid (a blemish, blemish), cron (blame, evil, fault, harm, mischief), éis (delay, hindrance, respite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dezertirati (desert), nedostatak (blemish, defiance, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, imperfection, lack, minus, shortage, want), mana (blemish, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, foible, imperfection, manna, mar, shortcoming). (various references)

Spanish

defecto (batter, blemish, damage, default, deficiency, failing, fault, hole, shortcoming), tara (hangup, tare). (various references)

Swedish

fel (aberration, Amiss, blemish, corrigendum, demerit, error, errors, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foul, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, out, shortcoming, trouble, vice, wrong), lyte (absence, deficiency, deformity, disability, lack, shortage, shortcoming), felaktighet (error, falseness, faultiness, impropriety, inaccuracy, inaccurary, incorrectness), defekt (bug, defective, imperfection, irregular, warp). (various references)

Turkish

döneklik etmek (rat), sakatlık (deformation, deformity, disability, disablement, infirmity, invalidism, invalidity, lameness, malformation, shakiness), sığınmak (fall back upon a thing, Harbor, harbour, nestle, refuge, take refuge in, take sanctuary, take shelter in, take to, turn to), noksan (deficiency, gappy, lack, shortcoming, wanting), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), iltica etmek (take refuge in, take sanctuary), eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, failing, failure, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void), bozukluk (being broken down, chicken feed, coin, decomposition, deformity, distortion, disturbance, failure, faultiness, foulness, hilliness, irregularity, putrescence, rupture, small chance, taint, unsoundness, upset), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), arıza (breakdown, fault, hitch, obstruction, trouble), özür (allegation, amends, apologetic, apologetical, apology, crack, disablement, excuse, flaw, handicap, pardon, putoff, reparation, vice). (various references)

Turkmen 

kem (flaw). (various references)

Ukrainian

кількість, якої не вистача�", вада (blemish, blur, demerit, disfiguration, disfigurement, fault, shortcoming, weakness), нестача (deficit, shortage), недолік (blemish, deficiency, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, imperfection, infirmity, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle), зрадити (blow on, play false), брак (brack, dearth, deficiency, discard [tech.], reject, spoilage, waster), порок (blur, evil, sin, taint, vice, wickedness), дефект (brack, damage, demerit, fault, flaw), дезертирувати (desert, step, straggle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu sót (hole, imperfection, limitation, shortcoming), tật xấu, sai sót (errant, trip), nhược điểm (blemish, failing, frailty, shortcoming), góc khuyết. (various references)

Welsh

diffyg (eclipse, lack, want), rhemp (excess), gwall (error, mistake, want), ffaeledd (failing, fault), coll (failing, loss), bai (blame, blemish, fault, vice), anghaffael (failure, hindrance, mishap), anafdod, anaf (blemish, wound). (various references)

elleipsis. (various references)

culpa, culpae, culpam, defectus, vitii, vitiis, vitio, vitium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "defect": defected, defecting, defection, defections, defective, defectively, defectiveness, defectivenesses, defectives, defector, defectors, defects. (additional references)

Words ending with "defect": redefect. (additional references)

Words containing "defect": indefectibilities, indefectibility, indefectible, indefectibly, redefected, redefecting, redefects. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Defect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dbfast, debectib, dececco, defact, defat, defe, defecit, defeet, defent, deffect, d'effet, Deffett, defict, defit, defuct, delect, diffent, Dufeck, Duffett, Dunecht, pefect. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: feted.

-2 letters: cede, cete, deet, deft, feed, feet, fete, teed.

-3 letters: cee, dee, eft, fed, fee, fet, ted, tee.

-4 letters: de, ed, ef, et.

+1 letter: clefted, defects, deflect, faceted, fetched.

+2 letters: affected, defecate, defected, defector, deflects, effected, facetted, feticide, fletched, infected, redefect, refected.

+3 letters: acetified, afterdeck, certified, confected, deceitful, decertify, defalcate, defecated, defecates, defecting, defection, defective, defectors, deficient, deflected, deflector, fecundate, feedstock, feticides, inflected, perfected, rectified, redefects, reflected, refracted.

+4 letters: affectedly, afterdecks, centerfold, cofeatured, defacement, defalcated, defalcates, defecating, defecation, defections, defectives, deficients, deflecting, deflection, deflective, deflectors, dentifrice, facelifted, farfetched, fecundated, fecundates, feedstocks, flichtered, forecasted, interfaced, redefected, reinfected, unaffected, uninfected.