English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "defek" is 'n selfstandige naamwoord wat verwys na 'n fout, onvolmaaktheid of gebrek wat kwaliteit of funksionaliteit benadeel. As 'n werkwoord beteken dit om 'n mens se land of trou te laat vaar, of om fout of gebreke in iets of iemand te vind. Hier is 'n paar voorbeelde van hoe die woord "defek" in verskillende kontekste gebruik kan word:Selfstandige naamwoord: Die defek in die motor se enjin het veroorsaak dat dit op die snelweg onklaar geraak het. Werkwoord: Sy moes van haar politieke party afwyk omdat sy nie met hul beleid saamgestem het nie.Selfstandige naamwoord: Die produk het 'n vervaardigingsfout gehad wat dit onveilig gemaak het vir verbruikers om te gebruik.Werkwoord: Die inspekteur kon verskeie gebreke in die gebou se konstruksie defekteer.Selfstandige naamwoord: Die atleet is gebore met 'n gehoorgebrek wat dit vir haar moeilik gemaak het om met haar spanmaats te kommunikeer.Werkwoord: Sommige mense sal van 'n handelsmerk afwyk as hulle 'n slegte ervaring met een van hul produkte het.

Sentence Examples

  1. In essence, it would force them to defect, or be interned as well, draining the resources of the fascists.
  2. And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them our laws were enforced only by penalties, without any mention of reward.
  3. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end and by this defect they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable.
  4. You do this, whose sanity we have reason to doubt, since you are not yet released from medical treatment for this very defect.
  5. Their houses are very ill-built, the walls bevel, without one right angle in any apartment and this defect arises from the contempt they bear to practical geometry, which they despise as vulgar and mechanic those instructions they give being too refined for the intellects of their workmen, which occasions perpetual mistakes.
  6. The animal heat is the result of a slow combustion, and disease and death take place when this is too rapid or for want of fuel, or from some defect in the draught, the fire goes out.
  7. Neither do I say this with the least intention to detract from the many virtues of that excellent king, whose character, I am sensible, will on this account be very much lessened in the opinion of an English reader but I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance, they not having hitherto reduced politics into a science, as the more acute wits of Europe have done.
  8. Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition.
  9. He could not refrain from admiring the severe beauty of his features, the only defect, or rather the principal quality of which was the pallor.
  10. He scoured and polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, that it had no closed helmet, nothing but a simple morion.