Definition of defective in English:

defective

adjective dɪˈfɛktɪvdəˈfɛktɪv

1Imperfect or faulty.
有缺陷的，有缺点的
complaints over defective goods
对次品的抱怨。
Example sentencesExamples
- Summonses totalling R416000 have been served on drivers whose vehicles were found to have defects which included smooth tyres, defective brakes and faulty lights.
- Our service and post-sales support is designed to replace faulty or defective products, and to provide training for the proper operation and configuration of network hardware.
- There is some validity in their argument, because if our understanding is inherently imperfect, regulations are bound to be defective.
- We are talking about corporations which - thanks in part to their own defective strategic vision, in part to circumstances beyond their control - appear to have lost the plot.
- Hundreds of injuries, and some deaths, were linked to such devices as defective heart valves, faulty pacemakers, and substandard intrauterine devices.
- Plato regarded the world of pure mathematical ideas as alone worthy of study; if physical objects did not conform to it, so much the worse for them, because they were defective and imperfect anyway.
- Weak or defective spaces in the organs or tissues are where a pathological condition is likely to begin.
- I think I spent most of my childhood under the impression that I just wasn't trying hard enough, or that perhaps my vision was somehow defective.
- Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision.
- The patient said that as a young man he had used the Bates method for improving defective vision.
- The legislation, according to its critics, would have provided legal loopholes for those responsible for defective products, faulty construction and even criminal acts.
- Apple packing houses currently rely on digital camera imagery to sort apples by surface appearance only, flagging those that are visibly defective or the wrong size or color.
- These problems are associated with defective binocular vision and a comparable difficulty in locating sounds, due to abnormally-arranged nerve pathways from the eyes and inner ears to the brain.
- Some buses examined by inspectors in the last year have been found to have defective steering, faulty brakes or even bald tyres.
- Careless driving includes using a mobile phone while driving, driving without care or attention or with broken or defective lights.
- During a three-hour check of 59 Hackney carriages and private hire vehicles they found eight had defective tyres, while one had a faulty exhaust.
- The study found 35,000 of the district's 50,000 street lights need to be replaced because they are defective or too old - more than 5,000 of them are over 40 years old.
- The list of faults included defective tyres, faulty brakes and defective steering.
- My idea was to get a bunch of cheap wallets and fill my bag with junk, like defective cameras and broken portable CD players.
- He didn't smoke, and he jogged and worked out and ate right, but he had a defective heart - the wrong number of valves or something.
Synonyms
faulty, flawed, imperfect, shoddy, inoperative, not working, not functioning, non-functioning, malfunctioning, out of order, unsound
weak, deficient, incomplete
in disrepair, broken, cracked, torn, scratched, deformed, warped, buckled
informal gone wrong, on the blink
British informal knackered, duff
1. 1.1 Lacking or deficient.
  缺乏的，不足的，有缺陷的
  dystrophin is commonly defective in muscle tissue
  营养不良是肌肉组织的常见缺陷。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mutants that grew on these plates were judged to be defective in glucose metabolism and were not studied further.
  A genetic selection for mutants that activate this pathway uncovered a class of mutants defective in cell wall integrity.
  A case study of cause-and-effect, it's also a yarn of dangerously defective brotherly love.
  Responses to GIP have been shown to be defective in type 2 diabetic patients.
  Synonyms
  lacking, wanting, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, short, low, scant
2. 1.2Grammar (of a word) not having all the inflections normal for the part of speech.
  〔语法〕（词）不完全变化的
2dated, offensive Having mental disabilities.

noun dɪˈfɛktɪvdəˈfɛktɪv

dated, offensive

A person with mental disabilities.

Derivatives

defectively

adverb dɪˈfɛktɪvlidəˈfɛktɪvli

The point of departure for reform is always an idea or institution that is affirmed but considered to have been imperfectly or defectively realized.
Example sentencesExamples
- The important thing to remember is that no expert ever said that this course was designed defectively and I don't think other clubs will be impacted by this decision.
- Thus if a building is constructed so defectively that it is of no use for its designed purpose the owner may have little difficulty in establishing that his loss is the necessary cost of reconstructing.
- So the amended decrees nisi in each case would appear to be defectively drawn.
- The law of tort has long provided a remedy for consumers injured (at least physically) by a defectively manufactured product.

defectiveness

noun dɪˈfɛktɪvnəsdəˈfɛktɪvnəs

Of course, it may be easier to tell that the good or building is of a lesser quality if its defectiveness becomes manifest but this does not change the nature of the complaint.
Example sentencesExamples
- Admittedly a number of factors will contribute to the moral defectiveness and the aesthetic defectiveness of the work in question.
- Contrary to an occasionally voiced view, it is irrelevant whether the producer in question was in a position to recognise the defectiveness in his product.
- The Act does not mention the cost of the product as a factor in determining defectiveness.
- There now exists a vast repository of images that make it harder to maintain this kind of moral defectiveness.

Definition of defective in US English:

defective

adjectivedəˈfektivdəˈfɛktɪv

1Imperfect or faulty.
有缺陷的，有缺点的
complaints over defective goods
对次品的抱怨。
Example sentencesExamples
- During a three-hour check of 59 Hackney carriages and private hire vehicles they found eight had defective tyres, while one had a faulty exhaust.
- Careless driving includes using a mobile phone while driving, driving without care or attention or with broken or defective lights.
- I think I spent most of my childhood under the impression that I just wasn't trying hard enough, or that perhaps my vision was somehow defective.
- The patient said that as a young man he had used the Bates method for improving defective vision.
- The study found 35,000 of the district's 50,000 street lights need to be replaced because they are defective or too old - more than 5,000 of them are over 40 years old.
- The list of faults included defective tyres, faulty brakes and defective steering.
- Apple packing houses currently rely on digital camera imagery to sort apples by surface appearance only, flagging those that are visibly defective or the wrong size or color.
- He didn't smoke, and he jogged and worked out and ate right, but he had a defective heart - the wrong number of valves or something.
- Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision.
- We are talking about corporations which - thanks in part to their own defective strategic vision, in part to circumstances beyond their control - appear to have lost the plot.
- Weak or defective spaces in the organs or tissues are where a pathological condition is likely to begin.
- The legislation, according to its critics, would have provided legal loopholes for those responsible for defective products, faulty construction and even criminal acts.
- Our service and post-sales support is designed to replace faulty or defective products, and to provide training for the proper operation and configuration of network hardware.
- Plato regarded the world of pure mathematical ideas as alone worthy of study; if physical objects did not conform to it, so much the worse for them, because they were defective and imperfect anyway.
- Some buses examined by inspectors in the last year have been found to have defective steering, faulty brakes or even bald tyres.
- These problems are associated with defective binocular vision and a comparable difficulty in locating sounds, due to abnormally-arranged nerve pathways from the eyes and inner ears to the brain.
- Summonses totalling R416000 have been served on drivers whose vehicles were found to have defects which included smooth tyres, defective brakes and faulty lights.
- My idea was to get a bunch of cheap wallets and fill my bag with junk, like defective cameras and broken portable CD players.
- Hundreds of injuries, and some deaths, were linked to such devices as defective heart valves, faulty pacemakers, and substandard intrauterine devices.
- There is some validity in their argument, because if our understanding is inherently imperfect, regulations are bound to be defective.
Synonyms
faulty, flawed, imperfect, shoddy, inoperative, not working, not functioning, non-functioning, malfunctioning, out of order, unsound
1. 1.1 Lacking or deficient.
  缺乏的，不足的，有缺陷的
  dystrophin is commonly defective in muscle tissue
  营养不良是肌肉组织的常见缺陷。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A case study of cause-and-effect, it's also a yarn of dangerously defective brotherly love.
  Responses to GIP have been shown to be defective in type 2 diabetic patients.
  Mutants that grew on these plates were judged to be defective in glucose metabolism and were not studied further.
  A genetic selection for mutants that activate this pathway uncovered a class of mutants defective in cell wall integrity.
  Synonyms
  lacking, wanting, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, short, low, scant
2. 1.2Grammar (of a word) not having all the inflections normal for the part of speech.
  〔语法〕（词）不完全变化的
2offensive, dated Having mental disabilities.

noundəˈfektivdəˈfɛktɪv

offensive, dated

A person with mental disabilities.

单词	defective
释义	Definition of defective in English: defective adjective dɪˈfɛktɪvdəˈfɛktɪv 1Imperfect or faulty. 有缺陷的，有缺点的 complaints over defective goods 对次品的抱怨。 Example sentencesExamples Summonses totalling R416000 have been served on drivers whose vehicles were found to have defects which included smooth tyres, defective brakes and faulty lights. Our service and post-sales support is designed to replace faulty or defective products, and to provide training for the proper operation and configuration of network hardware. There is some validity in their argument, because if our understanding is inherently imperfect, regulations are bound to be defective. We are talking about corporations which - thanks in part to their own defective strategic vision, in part to circumstances beyond their control - appear to have lost the plot. Hundreds of injuries, and some deaths, were linked to such devices as defective heart valves, faulty pacemakers, and substandard intrauterine devices. Plato regarded the world of pure mathematical ideas as alone worthy of study; if physical objects did not conform to it, so much the worse for them, because they were defective and imperfect anyway. Weak or defective spaces in the organs or tissues are where a pathological condition is likely to begin. I think I spent most of my childhood under the impression that I just wasn't trying hard enough, or that perhaps my vision was somehow defective. Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision. The patient said that as a young man he had used the Bates method for improving defective vision. The legislation, according to its critics, would have provided legal loopholes for those responsible for defective products, faulty construction and even criminal acts. Apple packing houses currently rely on digital camera imagery to sort apples by surface appearance only, flagging those that are visibly defective or the wrong size or color. These problems are associated with defective binocular vision and a comparable difficulty in locating sounds, due to abnormally-arranged nerve pathways from the eyes and inner ears to the brain. Some buses examined by inspectors in the last year have been found to have defective steering, faulty brakes or even bald tyres. Careless driving includes using a mobile phone while driving, driving without care or attention or with broken or defective lights. During a three-hour check of 59 Hackney carriages and private hire vehicles they found eight had defective tyres, while one had a faulty exhaust. The study found 35,000 of the district's 50,000 street lights need to be replaced because they are defective or too old - more than 5,000 of them are over 40 years old. The list of faults included defective tyres, faulty brakes and defective steering. My idea was to get a bunch of cheap wallets and fill my bag with junk, like defective cameras and broken portable CD players. He didn't smoke, and he jogged and worked out and ate right, but he had a defective heart - the wrong number of valves or something. Synonyms faulty, flawed, imperfect, shoddy, inoperative, not working, not functioning, non-functioning, malfunctioning, out of order, unsound weak, deficient, incomplete in disrepair, broken, cracked, torn, scratched, deformed, warped, buckled informal gone wrong, on the blink British informal knackered, duff 1.1 Lacking or deficient. 缺乏的，不足的，有缺陷的 dystrophin is commonly defective in muscle tissue 营养不良是肌肉组织的常见缺陷。 Example sentencesExamples Mutants that grew on these plates were judged to be defective in glucose metabolism and were not studied further. A genetic selection for mutants that activate this pathway uncovered a class of mutants defective in cell wall integrity. A case study of cause-and-effect, it's also a yarn of dangerously defective brotherly love. Responses to GIP have been shown to be defective in type 2 diabetic patients. Synonyms lacking, wanting, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, short, low, scant 1.2Grammar (of a word) not having all the inflections normal for the part of speech. 〔语法〕（词）不完全变化的 2dated, offensive Having mental disabilities. noun dɪˈfɛktɪvdəˈfɛktɪv dated, offensive A person with mental disabilities. Derivatives defectively adverb dɪˈfɛktɪvlidəˈfɛktɪvli The point of departure for reform is always an idea or institution that is affirmed but considered to have been imperfectly or defectively realized. Example sentencesExamples The important thing to remember is that no expert ever said that this course was designed defectively and I don't think other clubs will be impacted by this decision. Thus if a building is constructed so defectively that it is of no use for its designed purpose the owner may have little difficulty in establishing that his loss is the necessary cost of reconstructing. So the amended decrees nisi in each case would appear to be defectively drawn. The law of tort has long provided a remedy for consumers injured (at least physically) by a defectively manufactured product. defectiveness noun dɪˈfɛktɪvnəsdəˈfɛktɪvnəs Of course, it may be easier to tell that the good or building is of a lesser quality if its defectiveness becomes manifest but this does not change the nature of the complaint. Example sentencesExamples Admittedly a number of factors will contribute to the moral defectiveness and the aesthetic defectiveness of the work in question. Contrary to an occasionally voiced view, it is irrelevant whether the producer in question was in a position to recognise the defectiveness in his product. The Act does not mention the cost of the product as a factor in determining defectiveness. There now exists a vast repository of images that make it harder to maintain this kind of moral defectiveness. Definition of defective in US English: defective adjectivedəˈfektivdəˈfɛktɪv 1Imperfect or faulty. 有缺陷的，有缺点的 complaints over defective goods 对次品的抱怨。 Example sentencesExamples During a three-hour check of 59 Hackney carriages and private hire vehicles they found eight had defective tyres, while one had a faulty exhaust. Careless driving includes using a mobile phone while driving, driving without care or attention or with broken or defective lights. I think I spent most of my childhood under the impression that I just wasn't trying hard enough, or that perhaps my vision was somehow defective. The patient said that as a young man he had used the Bates method for improving defective vision. The study found 35,000 of the district's 50,000 street lights need to be replaced because they are defective or too old - more than 5,000 of them are over 40 years old. The list of faults included defective tyres, faulty brakes and defective steering. Apple packing houses currently rely on digital camera imagery to sort apples by surface appearance only, flagging those that are visibly defective or the wrong size or color. He didn't smoke, and he jogged and worked out and ate right, but he had a defective heart - the wrong number of valves or something. Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision. We are talking about corporations which - thanks in part to their own defective strategic vision, in part to circumstances beyond their control - appear to have lost the plot. Weak or defective spaces in the organs or tissues are where a pathological condition is likely to begin. The legislation, according to its critics, would have provided legal loopholes for those responsible for defective products, faulty construction and even criminal acts. Our service and post-sales support is designed to replace faulty or defective products, and to provide training for the proper operation and configuration of network hardware. Plato regarded the world of pure mathematical ideas as alone worthy of study; if physical objects did not conform to it, so much the worse for them, because they were defective and imperfect anyway. Some buses examined by inspectors in the last year have been found to have defective steering, faulty brakes or even bald tyres. These problems are associated with defective binocular vision and a comparable difficulty in locating sounds, due to abnormally-arranged nerve pathways from the eyes and inner ears to the brain. Summonses totalling R416000 have been served on drivers whose vehicles were found to have defects which included smooth tyres, defective brakes and faulty lights. My idea was to get a bunch of cheap wallets and fill my bag with junk, like defective cameras and broken portable CD players. Hundreds of injuries, and some deaths, were linked to such devices as defective heart valves, faulty pacemakers, and substandard intrauterine devices. There is some validity in their argument, because if our understanding is inherently imperfect, regulations are bound to be defective. Synonyms faulty, flawed, imperfect, shoddy, inoperative, not working, not functioning, non-functioning, malfunctioning, out of order, unsound 1.1 Lacking or deficient. 缺乏的，不足的，有缺陷的 dystrophin is commonly defective in muscle tissue 营养不良是肌肉组织的常见缺陷。 Example sentencesExamples A case study of cause-and-effect, it's also a yarn of dangerously defective brotherly love. Responses to GIP have been shown to be defective in type 2 diabetic patients. Mutants that grew on these plates were judged to be defective in glucose metabolism and were not studied further. A genetic selection for mutants that activate this pathway uncovered a class of mutants defective in cell wall integrity. Synonyms lacking, wanting, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, short, low, scant 1.2Grammar (of a word) not having all the inflections normal for the part of speech. 〔语法〕（词）不完全变化的 2offensive, dated Having mental disabilities. noundəˈfektivdəˈfɛktɪv offensive, dated A person with mental disabilities.
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