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Rejoin vs Defect - What's the difference?

rejoin | defect |

As verbs the difference between rejoin and defect

is that rejoin is to join again; to unite after separation while defect is to abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

As a noun defect is

a fault or malfunction.

rejoin

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To join again; to unite after separation.
  • To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
  • * (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Volume II, page 60,
    • Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:
  • * , Episode 16
    • The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.}}
  • (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'
  • (archaic): To answer to a reply.
  • (legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
  • (patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).

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    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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