adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a defective/faulty gene (= a gene that does not work properly )
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The disease is caused by a defective gene.
poor/defective
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Her vision was quite poor and she always wore glasses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gene
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The new developments include very early sampling of foetal tissue to detect defective genes .
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While it strikes men twice as often, women can also carry the defective gene and pass it along to their children.
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Research on the family has enabled scientists to identify a defective gene responsible for causing the disease.
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Doctors at the Necker hospital in Paris delivered a normal copy of the defective gene that caused the condition.
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The defective gene is a version of the tumour-suppressor p53 gene.
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Now they think they can cure the defective gene in the lungs.
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If the test shows a woman carries a defective gene , there is a limit to what can be done.
goods
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All such notices are illegal because they try to limit a customer's right to return defective goods .
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This is an unsatisfactory position when what he really wants is to have the defective goods repaired or replaced.
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The waste-factory that produced these defective goods roared day and night.
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Sometimes the party in default makes an offer to put things right, e.g. the seller offers to buy back defective goods .
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A seller will prefer that the buyer's only remedy in respect of defective goods should be the express one granted under the contract.
item
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In fact several recent studies have shown that up to 15% of defective items have passed unnoticed in a 100% inspection.
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Table 18, below, shows the percentages of all defective items which suffered from the specific types of damage noted.
product
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The producer of a defective product is liable for damage resulting wholly or partly from that defect.
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But there is rarely any direct correlation between defective products and liability awards.
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Where a defective product is used as a component by another manufacturer, there will be two defective products and two producers.
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For example, a product manager in the marketing department may discover that one plant in manufacturing is producing defective products.
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Its purpose is to introduce a strict liability regime on producers of defective products .
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This resulted in the passing of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 which introduces a strict liability regime for defective products .
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MiLAN, at its option, will repair or replace any defective product within its warranty or extended warranty period.
vision
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These measures will show the distance at which the child with defective vision can be expected to discriminate visually presented material.
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In short, nearly one in three possessed physical defects, a figure which took no account of dental problems or defective vision .
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Should children with defective vision be resting their eyes?
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Small print, dense layout, footnotes and detailed diagrams can be very demanding for some pupils with defective vision .
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The ultimate aim must be to help pupils with defective vision to use as much standard material as possible in common with their classmates.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Merchants will give refunds on any damaged or defective merchandise.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The biological truth is the opposite; all biologists know that males are defective females.
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The seed was defective and the resulting crop was little better than useless.
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These usually indicate the presence of steel tie-rods used to hold a defective structure together.
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This is a rare familial disorder in which conjugated bilirubin levels are increased due to defective excretion of bilirubin in the bile.