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Defect vs Flawed - What's the difference?

defect | flawed |

As a noun defect

is a fault or malfunction.

As a verb defect

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

As an adjective flawed is

having a flaw.

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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    flawed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a flaw
    • Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.
    His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.

    Antonyms

    * perfect