{"id":374,"date":"2026-05-14T16:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/?p=374"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:36:25","slug":"defectnoun-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/english\/374\/defectnoun-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Defect(Noun-Verb)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

de\u2027fect <\/strong>1<\/strong> \/ d\u026a\u02c8fekt, \u02c8di\u02d0fekt \/ noun<\/em> [ countable ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a fault or a lack of something that means that something or someone is not perfect :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>All the cars are tested for defects before they leave the factory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>a genetic defect<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLLOCATIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADJECTIVES\/NOUN + defect<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a serious defect <\/strong>The movie has a few serious defects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a major defect<\/strong> (= very serious ) They have found a major defect in the program.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a slight\/minor defect <\/strong>There are one or two minor defects on the car\u2019s paintwork.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a physical defect <\/strong>Doctors examined the baby and could find no physical defects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a structural defect <\/strong>Older buildings are bound to have some structural defects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a genetic\/inherited defect<\/strong> (= one that is passed to you in your genes ) The condition is caused by a genetic defect.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a birth defect<\/strong> (= one that you are born with ) About 11% of children have birth defects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a heart defect <\/strong>Laura was born with a rare heart defect.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a speech defect<\/strong> (= an incorrect way of saying certain sounds ) He had a speech defect which made it quite difficult to understand him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a character defect<\/strong> (= a fault in your character ) Laziness was just one of his character defects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

verbs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

have a defect <\/strong>The old system had some serious defects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

correct a defect <\/strong>She had surgery to correct a defect in her right eye.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THESAURUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

something wrong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

fault<\/strong> a problem in a machine, system, design etc that causes damage or makes it not work properly : The fire was caused by an electrical fault. <\/em>| a fault in the engine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

defect<\/strong> a fault in something such as a product or machine, resulting from the way it was made or designed : Cars are tested for defects before they leave the factory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

weakness<\/strong> a part of a plan, system, or argument that is not as good as the other parts, and makes it likely to fail : What are the strengths and weaknesses of each method?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

flaw<\/strong> a fault in a plan, system, argument etc, especially one that makes it useless or not effective : Your argument has a fundamental flaw. <\/em>| There was one major flaw in his suggestion \u2013 we didn\u2019t have enough money.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

bug<\/strong> a fault in a computer program : A bug in the system was quickly fixed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

glitch<\/strong> a small fault in the way something works, that can usually be easily corrected : I noticed a small glitch when installing the software.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

mistake<\/strong> something that is wrong in someone\u2019s spelling, grammar, calculations etc : The article was full of spelling mistakes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

there\u2019s something wrong with something<\/strong> used when saying that there is a problem in a machine, car etc, but you do not know what it is : There\u2019s something wrong with the computer \u2013 it won\u2019t close down.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

defect 2<\/strong> \/ d\u026a\u02c8fekt \/ verb<\/em> [ intransitive ]<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


to leave your own country or group in order to go to or join an opposing one<\/p>\n\n\n\n

defect to\/from<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>a Russian actor who defected to the West<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 defector <\/strong>noun<\/em> [ countable ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 defection<\/strong> \/ d\u026a\u02c8fek\u0283 \u0259 <\/em>n \/ noun<\/em> [ uncountable and countable ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

de\u2027fect 1 \/ d\u026a\u02c8fekt, \u02c8di\u02d0fekt \/ noun [ countable ] a fault or a lack of something that means that something or someone is not perfect : All the cars are tested for defects before they leave the factory. a genetic defect COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES\/NOUN + defect a serious defect The movie has a few serious …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}