Infected vs Defected - What's the difference?
infected | defected |
(infect)
referring to something that has received an infection
(defect)
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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As verbs the difference between infected and defected
is that infected is (infect) while defected is (defect).As an adjective infected
is referring to something that has received an infection.infected
English
Verb
(head)- Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.
defected
English
Verb
(head)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
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(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.”