n. | 1. | Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; - opposed to superfluity. |
2. | Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; | |
v. i. | 1. | To fail; to become deficient. |
2. | to abandon one country or faction, and join another. | |
v. t. | 1. | To injure; to damage. |
Noun | 1. | defect - an imperfection in a bodily system; "visual defects"; "this device permits detection of defects in the lungs" |
2. | defect - a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information" Synonyms: shortcoming | |
3. | defect - an imperfection in a device or machine; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" | |
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Verb | 1. | defect - desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot" Synonyms: desert |
DEFECT. The want of something required by law.
2. It is a general rule that pleadings shall have these two requisites;
1. A matter sufficient in law. 2. That it be deduced and expressed according
to the forms of law. The want of either of these is a defect.
3. Defects in matters of substance cannot be cured, because it does not
appear that the plaintiff is entitled to recover; but when the defects are
in matter of form, they are cured by a verdict in favor of the party who
committed them. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3292; 2 Wash. 1; 1 Hen. & Munf. 153; 16
Pick. 128, 541; 1 Day, 315; 4 Conn, 190; 5 Conn. 416; 6 Conn. 176; 12 Conn.
455; 1 P. C. C. R. 76; 2 Green, 133; 4 Blackf. 107; 2 M'Lean, 35; Bac. Ab.
Verdict, X.
defect - bug |