What's the difference between defector and deficiency?

Defector


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If I don’t do everything by the book, what hope is there for the other defectors I know who want to go back to North Korea?” he said.
  • (2) Security agents have been visiting the families of defectors and telling them that it is safe for their loved ones to return, a Reuters investigation found last year.
  • (3) Yemen conflict: 'This war has killed everything that was beautiful' Read more “Based on the efforts of some friendly nations to reach a humanitarian ceasefire, during which the aggressive blockade is lifted and trade ships are allowed to reach Yemeni ports, and the path is opened for humanitarian assistance, we declare our agreement to the humanitarian ceasefire that begins on Tuesday,” said Sharaf Luqman, a spokesman for Yemeni army defectors who have allied with the rebels.
  • (4) "That's what the defectors are telling us," said Sheikh Tawfik Abu Sleiman, leader of one of the Aleppo brigades.
  • (5) On 27 December, Abdulrahman cited 148 violent deaths in Syria for that day: 49 rebels, 42 soldiers, three defectors, and the remaining 54 likely to be a mix of noncombatant civilians and unidentified rebels: "It isn't easy to count rebels because nobody on the ground says 'this is a rebel'.
  • (6) In a determined attempt to cover up the damage the two defectors caused, Carey-Foster added that senior British intelligence and defence officials should tell the US they could give them “no confidential information” about the two spies.
  • (7) His dependence on Tory-defector Shaun Woodward was emphasised as the Northern Ireland secretary sat beside him at Wednesday's prime minister's questions.
  • (8) Eighteen persons got cancer before invitation and six defectors as well.
  • (9) North Korea says the UN move is based on trumped-up allegations by defectors and backed by the United States and other countries seeking to overthrow its ruling regime.
  • (10) Updated at 11.01am GMT 8.59am GMT A very interesting tweet about police defectors from BBC’s Duncan Crawford.
  • (11) Authorities have also used the attacks by defectors to support their official narrative: that the unrest in Syria is the work of armed gangs and terrorists rather than true reform-seekers.
  • (12) Ukip's existing general election candidate in Clacton-on-Sea said he had no intention of standing aside for the Conservative defector Douglas Carswell – and even said that the Tories had been making overtures to him.
  • (13) Minutes after Ali Mohsen's defection, tanks belonging to the republican guards, an elite force led by the president's son Ahmed Ali, rolled into the streets of Sana'a, setting the stage for a standoff between defectors and loyalists.
  • (14) Assisted by Saunders, a British bureaucrat, 007 is tasked with protecting a key asset – in the book, British agent 272, in the film, Soviet defector Georgi Koskov – from a waiting assassin.
  • (15) According to testimonies from workers and defectors, labourers from the reclusive state said they receive almost no salaries in person while in the Gulf emirate during the three years they typically spend there.
  • (16) Could it be that the Tory tactic of frightening voters with the SNP worked and that enough “Conservative” Ukip defectors switched back at the last minute, whereas “Labour” Ukip defectors didn’t?
  • (17) Tonight [Monday] was not a particularly special night other than the fact that a number of my colleagues came together and formed a view collectively that I should be the new chief minister of the NT.” There were also reports on Tuesday that CLP defectors Alison Anderson and Larissa Lee had returned to the party to boost its numbers after resigning in protest a year ago.
  • (18) Warren Truss has asserted the National party’s demand for a greater share of cabinet positions as the deputy prime minister pushed back at criticism of his secret talks with Liberal defector Ian Macfarlane .
  • (19) Defectors’ groups estimate there are up to 65,000 North Koreans working in about 40 countries.
  • (20) Possible Tory defectors are likely, however, to hold back for the moment and focus on stepping up the pressure on the prime minister to adopt a tougher stance in his EU membership negotiations.

Deficiency


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
  • (2) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
  • (3) Congenitally deficient plasmas were used as the substrate for the measurement of procoagulant activities in a one-stage clotting assay.
  • (4) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
  • (5) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
  • (6) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
  • (7) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (8) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
  • (9) A significant association between G6PD deficiency and hemoglobin S correlated with previous studies on similar samples from the general population.
  • (10) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • (11) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
  • (12) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
  • (13) C. parasitica mutant strains deficient in the production of endothiapepsin (eapA-) were constructed using a gene-replacement strategy.
  • (14) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  • (15) We have previously reported the isolation of a genomic clone encoding human liver-specific peroxisomal alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT, EC 2.6.1.44), the deficient enzyme in primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) (P. E. Purdue, Y. Takada, and C. J. Danpure, J.
  • (16) Natural killer (NK) cell activity was assessed in the peripheral blood of 20 patients with growth hormone (GH) deficiency due to a hypothalamic deficit of GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
  • (17) The results show that of 543 subjects with AA haemoglobin, 106 (19.5%) were G-6-PD deficient and of 93 individuals with AS haemoglobin 13 (14.0%).
  • (18) Basal plasma levels of oxytocin were found to be low in sodium-deficient adrenalectomized rats and in intact animals treated daily with desoxycorticosterone acetate, both of which groups drank large amounts of NaCl solution, whereas basal plasma levels of arginine vasopressin were neither stimulated nor suppressed.
  • (19) ACTH also suppressed aldosterone biosynthesis in rats kept on a sodium-deficient diet.
  • (20) The duodenal mucosa of genotypically normal iron replete and iron deficient mice and mice with sex-linked (sla) and microcytic anemias (mk) was examined for the presence of iron-binding proteins.