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 defective [di'fektiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 有缺陷的, 欠缺的

n. 有缺陷的人, 不完全变化词

[医] 缺损的, 不全的, 有缺点者, 不健全者

[经] 有缺点的, 缺陷


  1. He is mentally defective.
    他智力不健全。
  2. He is defective in moral sense.
    他不能分辨善恶。
  3. A damaged or defective object or device.
    损坏物,缺陷物损坏的或有缺陷的物体或设备


defective
[ adj ]
  1. having a defect

  2. <adj.all>
    I returned the appliance because it was defective
  3. markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior

  4. <adj.all>
    defective speech
  5. not working properly

  6. <adj.all>
    a bad telephone connection
    a defective appliance


Defective \De*fect"ive\, a. [L. defectivus: cf. F. d['e]fectif.
See {Defect}.]
1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part;
deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural
or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective
timber; a defective copy or account; a defective
character; defective rules.

2. (Gram.) Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or
conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. --
{De*fect"ive*ly}, adv. -- {De*fect"ive*ness}, n.


Defective \De*fect"ive\, n.
1. Anything that is defective or lacking in some respect.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. (Med.) One who is lacking physically or mentally.

Note: Under the term defectives are included deaf-mutes, the
blind, the feeble-minded, the insane, and sometimes,
esp. in criminology, criminals and paupers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  1. "You can postpone a new road," he said. "You can't postpone a defective bridge." Stanley anticipates no problems with tolls. "I personally believe people will pay tolls if it's a direct user fee," said Stanley.
  2. What happens, for instance, if Mattel inadvertently sends out a shipment of defective Barbie dolls and buyers refuse to pay for them?
  3. Some involve 'gene therapy' - giving patients perfect copies of defective genes.
  4. An advocacy group is suing the maker of an allegedly defective heart valve that has been implanted in the chests of more than 80,000 people.
  5. The defective gene located by the scientists causes Von Hippel Lindau, or VHL, disease, a relatively rare disorder whose sufferers develop cancers of different organs, including the brain and kidney.
  6. Virtually all surrogacy contracts require amniocentesis and penalize surrogates who do not abort defective fetuses while otherwise forbidding abortion.
  7. The jury didn't specify how the car was defective, but found that the driver wasn't responsible for the accident.
  8. So the defective gene or a nearby one may play a role in at least some sporadic kidney cancers, Gusella said.
  9. But the auto maker said it hadn't been ordered to recall the vehicles, despite the large number of accidents blamed by customers on defective engine controls.
  10. NASA has not launched a shuttle since Discovery's April flight with the Hubble Space Telescope, which later was found to have a defective mirror.
  11. "The preliminary DCAA audits have indicated that there is substance to virtually all of the anonymous allegations of mischarging and defective pricing," Dingell said.
  12. Two days after NASA revealed that the Hubble was crippled by a defective mirror, the House approved $14.3 billion for the agency in fiscal 1991, $2 billion more than the current fiscal year. There's little talk of any immediate cutbacks.
  13. But the US authorities made clear there was no link between these deaths and the defective equipment.
  14. Plaintiffs' lawyers have estimated that Pfizer has settled about 100 suits from families of people who have died because of defective valves. But Pfizer still faces hundreds of other suits filed by users concerned about the safety of the device.
  15. Advocates for women who used the Dalkon Shield are divided on the merits of a reorganization plan involving the manufacturer of the defective contraceptive devices and establishing a trust fund for victims.
  16. When my friends on the local police force stop a vehicle for a minor moving violation or a defective light, they routinely check the driver's license, his identity, whether the car is stolen and whether there is a warrant out for him. That's about it.
  17. The walls of the building are riddled with holes, paint is chipped and peeling, plumbing fixtures leak, doors are defective and smoke detectors don't work, she said.
  18. In the meantime, the Army has decided to reduce by two-thirds the number of times gun already in use may be fired before replacing the chamber slide mechanism, the defective part.
  19. A federal judge Monday dismissed drug-related charges against a woman whose boyfriend fell to his death from a plane in 1985 with 77 pounds of cocaine and a defective parachute strapped to his body.
  20. It wouldn't cover defective products or cases in which a manufacturer broke the rules to get regulatory approval.
  21. A beleaguered NASA has spent the summer also contending with Hubble's defective mirror and communications problems with the Venus-orbiting Magellan spacecraft.
  22. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Frank E. Young stressed that the defective pacemakers have long since been the subject of notifications to physicians, and are no longer on the market.
  23. Separately, Audi said it would also comply with the agency's request to replace defective idle-stabilization valves in some 1985 and 1986 models.
  24. The law shields tobacco manufacturers from claims that cigarettes are "defective" products because of their health hazards.
  25. GM had become aware the trucks were defective, he said, adding that the management 'appeared to have made a decision favouring sales over safety'.
  26. About one in every 700 women is estimated to be a silent carrier of the defective fragile-X gene and thus is at risk of bearing a mentally retarded child.
  27. He added, however, that there was no evidence that substandard or defective bolts had endangered any flights or compromised any mission.
  28. While routine screening found two defective chips in torpedoes, the lawsuit's allegations are wrong, said Dan Reeder, a spokesman for Hughes' Ground Systems Group in Fullerton.
  29. Its sufferers have defective collagen, a protein found in connective tissue.
  30. Union Carbide denies the government's allegations that the company allowed "highly dangerous and defective plant conditions."
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