How to pronounce“defect”in English
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Definitions of “defect”
A fault or malfunction.
“a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment”
The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
“and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.”
To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
“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.””
To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
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