From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] [en], from [la], from past participle [la], from [la] + [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [noun] [dē'fĕkt] , [en]
- [en]
- [verb] [dĭfĕkt'] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A fault or malfunction .
2. * [passage=Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal DEFECTS .]
3. * [en]
4. * [1=en]
5. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short .
6. * [en]
7. [en] A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
**** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defect
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|defectible|defectious|defectless|defectology|microdefect|re-defect|stereodefect
|CHILD syndrome|angular defect|birth defect|congenital heart defect|defect of
one's qualities|Frenkel defect|mass defect|organic defect|Schottky
defect|title defect}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Collocations
[2]
- [en]
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**** Translations
[fault or malfunction]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] [bodily]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To abandon or turn against ; to cease or change one's loyalty , especially from a military organisation or political party.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=May 23 2013 | author=w:Sarah Lyall | title=British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party | titleurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/world/europe/british-leader-david-cameron-faces-rebellion-in-his-party.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | journal=New York Times | accessdate=29 May 2013
|passage=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.”}}
1. [en] To desert one's army , to flee from combat .
2. [en] To join the enemy army.
3. [en] To flee one's country and seek asylum .
4. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|nondefecting |defection|defector|redefect}}
**** Translations
[to abandon; to change one's loyalty]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to desert; to flee combat]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Jpanese: [ja]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
[trans-bottom]
[to join the enemy]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to flee one's country and seek asylum]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [to flee] [hu] , [with emphasis on illegality] [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl], [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Adjective
[nl-adj]
1. broken , not working
**** Declension
[nl-decl-adj]
**** Descendants
- [pey]
*** Noun
[n]
1. a [en]
**** Descendants
- [id]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro] or [ro].
*** Adjective
[ro-adj]
1. defective
**** Declension
[ro-decl-adj]
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n]