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Warranty vs Defect - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between warranty and defect

is that warranty is justifying mandate or precept; authority; warrant. Shakespeare while defect is a part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

As nouns the difference between warranty and defect

is that warranty is security; warrant; guarantee while defect is a fault or malfunction.

As verbs the difference between warranty and defect

is that warranty is to warrant; to guarantee while defect is to abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

warranty

English

Noun

(warranties)
  • Security; warrant; guarantee.
  • The stamp was a warranty of the public. -(John Locke).
  • (obsolete, legal) A covenant real, whereby the granter of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long since become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
  • (legal) An engagement or undertaking, expressed or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly implied or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title.
  • (insurance law) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when expressed, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
  • (rare) Justifying mandate or precept; authority; warrant. Shakespeare
  • If they disobey precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty . . . to disobey likewise. -Kettlewe.

    Synonyms

    * guarantee * warrant

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To warrant; to guarantee.
  • References

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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

    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