defect

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 dē'fĕkt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fault or malfunction.
    — a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment
  2. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
    — and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.
  3. A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
动词 v.
  1. To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party. intransitive
    — 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.”
  2. To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
  3. To join the enemy army.
  4. To flee one's country and seek asylum.
    — Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.

词形变化

defects plural defects present,singular,third-person defecting participle,present defected participle,past defected past

词汇关系

近义词
defect fault flaw imperfection shortcoming drawback deficiency inadequacy peccadillo sin
上位词
issue problem quirk trouble
下位词
blemish crack dent taint bug glitch scratch stain weak spot wem
衍生词
angular defect birth defect bulk defect CHILD syndrome congenital heart defect crystallographic defect defectible defectious defectless defect of one's qualities defectology Frenkel defect line defect mass defect microdefect organic defect planar defect point defect re-defect renal dysplasia-limb defects syndrome Schottky defect stereodefect title defect volume defect defection defector nondefecting redefect
相关词
defective defeat deficiency deficient deficit error flawless

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin de-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Latin dēficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin dēfectusbor.
English defect
Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin de-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Latin dēficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin dēfectusbor.
English defect
Borrowed from Latin defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).
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