Defect
Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
To fail; to become deficient.
To injure; to damage.
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Defect Quotations
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve Jobs
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman Melville
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
Defect Translations
defect in German is defekt
defect in Norwegian is mangel, hoppe av, feil
defect in Spanish is defecto, vicio, defectuoso
defect in Swedish is fel, felaktighet, lyte
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