Defect vs Depart - What's the difference?
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A fault or malfunction.
* Macaulay
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The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
* Davies
(math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
* 2013 May 23, , "
To leave.
*Shakespeare
*:He which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart .
*2009 , George Monbiot, The Guardian , 7 September:
*:The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."
To set out on a journey.
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*:And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne
To die.
*Bible, Luke ii. 29:
*:Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
To deviate (from).
:His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
:to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
*Madison
*:if the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles
To go away from; to leave.
*Bible, 1 Sam. iv. 2:
*:The glory is departed from Israel.
*2009 , The Guardian , Sport Blog, 9 September:
*:The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.
(obsolete) To divide up; to distribute, share.
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*:and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.
(obsolete) To separate, part.
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(obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A going away; departure.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between defect and depart
is that defect is a fault or malfunction while depart is departure, start.As verbs the difference between defect and depart
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 depart is third-person singular indicative present of .defect
English
(wikipedia defect)Noun
(en noun)- a defect''' in the ear or eye; a '''defect''' in timber or iron; a '''defect of memory or judgment
- Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects .
- Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)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 * defectorExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----depart
English
Verb
(en verb)- Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them.
Synonyms
* (to leave) duck out, go, go away, leave, part, pull up stakes, start, start out, set forth, split, set off, set out, take off, take leave, quit * (to die) die * (to deviate) deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary * (to go away from) leaveAntonyms
* (to leave): arrive, come, stay * (to die): live * (to deviate): conformNoun
- The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .
- At my depart for France.