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Defect vs Broke - What's the difference?

defect | broke |

As nouns the difference between defect and broke

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while broke is (papermaking) paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

As verbs the difference between defect and broke

is that defect is to abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party while broke is (break) or broke can be to broker; to transact business for another.

As an adjective broke is

(informal) lacking money; bankrupt.

defect

English

(wikipedia defect)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fault or malfunction.
    • a defect''' in the ear or eye; a '''defect''' in timber or iron; a '''defect of memory or judgment
  • * Macaulay
    • Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects .
  • * '>citation
  • The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
  • * Davies
    • Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
  • (math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * deficiency * deficient * deficit * defective

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
  • * 2013 May 23, , " 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.”

    Derived terms

    * defection * defector

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    broke

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Lacking money; bankrupt
  • (informal) Broken.

    • Synonyms

    * boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
  • *1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper , page 12:
  • *:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
  • *1914 , The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:
  • *:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
  • *2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co. :
  • *:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (break)
  • (archaic, or, poetic)
  • * 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
    • Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
  • # (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
  • He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

    • Verb

    (brok)
  • To broker; to transact business for another.
    • (Brome)
  • (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
  • * Fanshawe
    • We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.

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