Disability vs Defect - What's the difference?
disability | defect | Synonyms |
State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
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Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
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(uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
A fault or malfunction.
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The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
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(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 nouns the difference between disability and defect
is that disability is state of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like while 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.disability
Noun
(en-noun)- Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.
- Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability .
- The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.
- I had to go on disability after the accident.
- Did you get your disability this month?
Usage notes
* Disability and inability: Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements.Synonyms
* disqualification * impotence * inability * incapacity * incompetency * incompetence * weaknessAntonyms
* ability * capacity * competence * competency * potence * potential * qualification * strengthdefect
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.
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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.”
