Defect vs Refuge - 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.
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A state of safety, protection or shelter.
* Milton
A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd, work=the Guardian
, title= An expedient to secure protection or defence.
* Shakespeare
To return to a place of shelter.
* 2011 , Michael D. Gumert, ?Agustín Fuentes, ?Lisa Jones-Engel, Monkeys on the Edge
(obsolete) To shelter; to protect.
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In intransitive terms the difference between defect and refuge
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 refuge is to return to a place of shelter.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 ----refuge
English
Noun
(en noun)- Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge .
Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, passage=Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.}}
- Their latest refuge / Was to send him.
Synonyms
* haven * sanctuary * zoarDerived terms
* refugee * refugiumVerb
(refug)- Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.