Impair vs Defect - What's the difference?
impair | defect |
To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
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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In lang=en terms the difference between impair and defect
is that impair is to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on while defect is to abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.As verbs the difference between impair and defect
is that impair is to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on while defect is to abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.As an adjective impair
is (obsolete) not fit or appropriate.As a noun defect is
a fault or malfunction.impair
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(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.”