2. Verb. (third-person singular of defect) ¹
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Definition of Defects
1. defect [v] - See also: defect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defects
Literary usage of Defects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"The dialectic accent enters into this category; but there also enter vicious
habits which make the natural defects of the articulate language of childhood ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"D. Congenital defects of the Heart The leading congenital defects which interest
the clinician are: 1. Stenosis of the Pulmonary orifice. 2. ..."
3. The Journal of Educational Research by Educational Research Association (U.S. (1921)
"There must be: first, setting of standards of normality so that deviation from
them may be measured; second, determination of the most serious defects ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"In the absence of an agreement so to do, the landlord is not bound to repair
patent defects in a building of the existence of which the tenant knew at the ..."
5. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, John Church Hamilton (1869)
"FURTHER defects OF THE PRESENT CONSTITUTION. HAVING in the three last numbers
taken a summary review of the principal circumstances and events, which depict ..."
6. The Study of Children and Their School Training by Francis Warner (1897)
"Children with developmental defects often present also abnormal nerve-signs, ...
Of the children with developmental defects : The proportion of these with ..."
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