What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Glitch vs Defect - What's the difference?

glitch | defect |

As nouns the difference between glitch and defect

is that glitch is a problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk while defect is a fault or malfunction.

As verbs the difference between glitch and defect

is that glitch is to experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction while defect is to abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

glitch

English

Noun

(wikipedia glitch) (es)
  • A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
    • They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
  • (video games) A bug or an exploit.
    • Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
  • (music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.

    • Derived terms

    * glitchcore

    Quotations

    * 1962 , (John Glenn) *: Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current. * 1965 , Time magazine *: Glitches —a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
    • My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
  • (video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
    • His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

    References

    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

    External links

    * * English heteronyms ----