How to pronounce“defective”in English
time and that the reason they did so is because life is worth living. And that now they can kind of take some of that and try to regain that will to live without worrying that they may be horribly
defective not only because of what the trauma did but because of the because of who they were that they weren't able to overcome the experience of adversity. So in part there's a cultural message
and a societal message here that we need to really let trauma survivors know that we understand how difficult it was and really embrace their survival and adaptation. But sometimes we live in a society
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Definitions of “defective”
Having one or more defects.
“If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.”
Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
“For the sake of comparison, note the distribution of these spellings in some other Hebrew sources: in the MT the vowel o after the first consonant of the root is written defective in approximately 3,600 cases as against 850 cases of plene spelling.”
A person or thing considered to be defective.
“It is an offence, subject to the exception mentioned in this section, for a person to procure a woman who is a defective to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world.”
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