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Defect vs Rework - What's the difference?

defect | rework |

As nouns the difference between defect and rework

is that defect is a fault or malfunction while rework is the act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.

As verbs the difference between defect and rework

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 rework is to redo, correct, or rebuild.

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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    rework

    English

    (wikipedia rework)

    Noun

  • The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
    • They sent the assembly back to the shop for rework .
  • (in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
  • Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
    • They received the rework back from the shop.
  • Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
    • The schedule has been pushed back because of the rework .
  • (countable) An instance of reworking.

    • Verb

  • To redo, correct, or rebuild.
    • You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes.

    Anagrams

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