different between defect vs defective

English

Etymology

From Middle French defaicte, from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“priv.”) + facere (“to do”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) enPR: d?'f?kt, IPA^(key): /?di?f?kt/
• (verb) enPR: d?f?kt', IPA^(key): /d??f?kt/

Noun

defect (plural defects)

1. A fault or malfunction.
2. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
   • 1824, Lydia Sigourney, Sketch of Connecticut

     and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.

3. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "defect": major, minor, serious, cosmetic, functional, critical, fatal, basic, fundamental, main, primary, principal, radical, inherent

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:defect

Related terms

• defective
• defeat
• deficiency
• deficient
• deficit

Translations

Verb

defect (third-person singular simple present defects, present participle defecting, simple past and past participle defected)

1. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     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.”

2. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
3. (military) To join the enemy army.
4. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

Derived terms

• defection
• defector

Translations

Further reading

• defect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• defect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?fectus, d?fectum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de??f?kt/
• Hyphenation: de?fect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

defect (comparative defecter, superlative defectst)

1. broken, not working

Inflection

Synonyms

• kapot

Noun

defect n (plural defecten, diminutive defectje n)

1. A defect.

English

Etymology

From Middle French défectif, from Late Latin defectivus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f?kt?v/
• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

defective (comparative more defective, superlative most defective)

1. Having one or more defects.

   Synonym: faulty

   Antonyms: complete, perfect
2. (grammar, of a lexeme, especially a verb) Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
3. (Arabic grammar, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (?, ?, or ?).
4. (Hebrew orthography) Spelled without matres lectionis, for example ??? (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling ???? where the letter vav ??? indicates the vowel o.

   Antonym: plene

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "defective" is often applied: merchandise, goods, part, component, product, equipment, gene, unit, construction, design, drug, memory, wiring, machine, device, instrument, hardware, software, vehicle.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

defective (plural defectives)

1. A person or thing considered to be defective.

See also

• Wikipedia article on defective verbs

References

Interlingua

Adjective

defective (comparative plus defective, superlative le plus defective)

1. defective (having defects)