defect

defect

1. virhe, vika

Liittyvät sanat: defector

Synonyymisanakirja

defect

ulkoasu, ulkonäkö, julkiasu, ulkomuoto, jälki, tahra, vika, syntymämerkki, luomi, värinäjälki, särö, kolo.

Englannin sanakirja

defect (englanti > suomi)

1. vika

2. loikata

defect englanniksi

1. A fault or malfunction.

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

2. Macaulay

Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.

3. (quote-journal) (Sport)|date=21 October 2014|passage=But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through (w)'s w:Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

4. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.

5. Davies

Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.

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

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

8. 2013 May 23, w:Sarah Lyall|Sarah Lyall, "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/world/europe/british-leader-david-cameron-faces-rebellion-in-his-party.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 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.”

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

10. puhekieltä To join the enemy army.

11. puhekieltä To flee one's country and seek asylum.

(Cite news):
"Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South."

12. broken, not working

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