What is "defects"

Usage examples of "defects".

To me, the dreary coldness and want of enthusiasm in American manners is one of their greatest defects, and I therefore hailed the demonstrations of general feeling which this day elicits with real pleasure.

On the contrary, the evils, the defects of his own nature, were given an objective form, and he could almost see himself, like a knight, with lance in rest, preparing to run a tilt against the personal faults which had done him such injury.

Among other things, Defects may take the form of incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other eBook medium, a computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment.

That may account for their slightly smaller size and the greater number of defects among them.

Moreover, she seemed to have no defects, for she was a calm, cunning, peasant woman, one who knew how to rule her employers and extract from them all that was to be extracted.

Following fertilization, the eggs had been carefully examined for a wide variety of genetic defects or abnormalities, with all unsuitable eggs immediately terminated and disposed of.

DNA techniques to correct the chromosomal defects that cause such conditions.

Nevertheless, they displayed remarkable tact in reconciling parents with the defects and peculiarities of their children.

They were fools and blind, but not through defects which would have condemned them in Greece and Rome at that day, but through failings of which Greece and Rome took small account.

After his marriage he became wholly unjust to her, and allowed her defects to veil the whole of her character.

Moreover, one of her defects was a certain hardness to persons for whom she had small respect, and she did not understand that just because Mrs.