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Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. defects

    An official return of the state of a ship as to what is required for her hull and equipment, and what repairs she stands in need of. Upon this return a ship is ordered to sea, into harbour, into dock, or paid out of commission.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DEFECTS in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DEFECTS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of DEFECTS in a Sentence

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  2. Comptroller Scott Stringer:

    With every missed maintenance check, the safety risk of undisclosed bike defects increases.

  3. Francois Fenelon:

    Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

  4. Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic:

    Drugs and alcohol are not the problems, they’re merely symptoms of the problem. And once those things go away, the real work begins, you know … working on all the character defects, the moral compass — the skewed moral compass.

  5. Greg Nojeim:

    The court is ordering Apple to create a backdoor into an iPhone’s operating system, citing a law adopted in 1789, if the order stands, Apple and other technology companies could be ordered to build backdoors – essentially defects – into other devices, rendering them insecure and vulnerable to attack by law enforcement and by others as well. We will fight against this result.

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