Word Finder - defect

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A fault or malfunction.

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a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment

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The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.

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A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

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To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

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To desert one's army, to flee from combat.

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To join the enemy army.

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To flee one's country and seek asylum.

The one defect is lack of green sward.

He had another defect besides the want of popular power.

The council had also a fatal defect in its constitution.

A defect of title or undisclosed liability would invalidate the sale at any time.

This defect blocks B cells from maturing.

And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength.

Another defect is its relatively low elastic limit.

It was well understood that the party intended that Jefferson should be president and Burr vice-president, but owing to a defect (later remedied) in the Constitution the responsibility for the final choice was thrown upon the House of Representatives.

Among the natural causes may be classed all failures of crops due to excess or defect of rainfall and other meteorological phenomena, or to the ravages of insects and vermin.

Some cases of spina bifida are accompanied by another defect at the base of the brain, known as the Arnold-Chiari malformation or Chiari II malformation.

Samples dating from the old sodium days are still in existence, and when they exhibit unpleasant properties the defect is often ascribed to the metal instead of to the process by which it was won.

Buffon accounted a grave defect of nature, and it must be confessed that no one has given what seems to be a satisfactory explanation of its precise use, though on evolutionary principles none will now doubt its fitness to the bird's requirements.

Wherever the soil is not quite suitable, but is capable of being made so, it is best to remedy the defect at the outset by trenching it all over to a depth of 2 or 3 ft., incorporating plenty of manure with it.

The greatest defect of all is their relative silence with regard to the myths.

His aim is to remedy this defect by psychology, under the conviction that a true metaphysics is at bottom psychology, and a true psychology fundamentally metaphysics.

A more considerable defect is due to the earth having a diurnal rotation relative to a Newtonian base, and this is never wholly ignored.

No correction for any defect in it has been found necessary; moreover, no rotation of the base relative to the directions of the stars without proper motion has been detected.

Partial albinism in this case was undoubtedly correlated with some inherent constitutional defect, in virtue of which the individuals characterized by it were injuriously affected by the juices of a plant quite innocuous to their pigmented brethren.

Besides the blue and purple of the spectrum he was able to recognize only one colour, yellow, or, as he says in his paper, "that part of the image which others call red appears to me little more than a shade or defect of light; after that the orange, yellow and green seem one colour which descends pretty uniformly from an intense to a rare yellow, making what I should call different shades of yellow."

If the situation is not naturally well sheltered, the defect may be remedied by masses of forest trees disposed at a considerable distance so as not to shade the walls or fruit trees.

To obviate this defect, it has been recommended that ornamental plants should be formed into four or five separate suites of flowering, to be distributed over the garden.

Its defect is that its tragic conclusion does not seem absolutely inevitable, but the characters - especially those of the Grafin Orsina and Marinelli, the prince of Guastalla's chamberlain who weaves the intrigue from which Emilia escapes by death, are powerfully drawn.

The absence of iron and the abundance of bronze in the relics of a prehistoric people is a piece of evidence to be accepted with caution, because the great defect of iron, its proneness to rust, would often lead to its complete disappearance, or conversion into an unrecognizable mass, even though tools of bronze originally laid down beside it might remain but little corroded.

Other minerals are iron, manganese, lead and zinc. The iron mines produce much less than formerly, and the want of iron is a grave defect in Belgian prosperity, as about £5,000,eoo sterling worth of iron has to be imported annually, chiefly from French Lorraine.

This limitation of administrative expenditure was the cardinal feature and the leading defect of the convention.

The self-love theory of Hobbes, with its subtle perversions of the motives of ordinary humanity, led to a reaction which culminated in the utilitarianism of Bentham and the two Mills; but their theory, though superior to the extravagant egoism of Hobbes, had this main defect, according to Herbert Spencer, that it conceived the world as an aggregate of units, and was so far individualistic. Sir Leslie Stephen in his Science of Ethics insisted that the unit is the social organism, and therefore that the aim of moralists is not the "greatest happiness of the greatest number," but rather the "health of the organism."

Such a compensation is only possible for one single defect, as we shall see later.

The extensive conjunctival defect, involving one-half of the bulbar conjunctiva, was reconstructed with an amniotic membrane allograft.

Mario's burning ambition at the moment is to defect.

The rectus sheath or external oblique aponeurosis was clearly exposed around the circumference of the defect.

The main defect in prawn aquaculture lies within the pond's waters.

This tape is concerned with the atrioventricular septal defect in the setting of a common atrioventricular septal defect in the setting of a common atrioventricular junction.

The urge to write is like a congenital birth defect.

Remedy defect in hanger on left side of trailing bogie.

Possibly we are dealing with a genetic defect in the metabolism of the satin cavy.

However, there is no congenital heart defect present and there are multiple contractures with overriding fingers observed with this syndrome.

It is also characterized by a heart defect, most often a hole in the heart, either ASD or VSD.

In thalassaemia there is an inherited defect in one of these genes.

If by any chance you should be as illiterate as I, and not know them, it is worth while curing the defect.

Dr. Hanley had closed Fahad's ventricular septal defect with a patch of the pericardium.

Thus, affected men do not transmit the genetic defect.

Children were assigned to heart defect groups based on medical records.

In acute infection the ventilation defect may exceed the perfusion defect.

That is the property will be valued as if such disrepair or defect did not exist.

Such is the natural result of defect of muscular exertion.

Another very rare birth defect called exstrophy can also increase a person's risk of developing bladder cancer later in life.

The main defect is that the acidity is too low which gives a rather flabby taste.

An extensive abdominoperineal resection was performed leaving a huge perineal defect (figure 4) which was reconstructed using bilateral myocutaneous gracilis flaps.

To cover a root surface denuded by gingival defect or periodontal disease, and widen the zone of attached gingiva.

Initially, a mutants will be screened for a combination of photosystem I impairment and a cellular iron homeostasis defect.