design flaw

collocation in English

meaningsofdesignandflaw

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design
noun
uk
/dɪˈzaɪn/us
/dɪˈzaɪn/
a drawing or set of drawings showing how a building or product is to be made and how it will work ...
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flaw
noun[C]
uk
/flɔː/us
/flɑː/
a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made, or that causes something not to ...
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(Definition ofdesignandflawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdesign flaw

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Many gamers regard the need for or use of mules in a game as adesignflaw.
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Instruction thus seems to have led many learners to overlook thisdesignflawin the pragmatics of the test items.
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Is the "bias" adesignflawor a built-in adaptation?
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It effectively builds in a programdesignflawthat wastes resources as a means of limiting a program's attractiveness.
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One can of course contrive reasons to explain what appears to be adesignflawin the eye.
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Roth et al. (1996) noted that adesignflawin many studies investigating language and reading relationships was the failure to take intelligence into account.
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We do not view this bias of signal flow in the centrifugal direction as adesignflawin amacrine cells, but rather as an inherent advantage.
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Unfortunately, the presentation of the data is vitiated by adesignflaw: no distinction is made between the positioning of words in rhyme, verse-initially, and verse-medially.
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The otherdesignflawin the eye is that the neural wires from the photoreceptor cells exit through the retina, creating a blind spot in the visual field.
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The company did not want to produce the tractors because thedesignflawneeded to be sorted out.
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That is a fundamentaldesignflawof the speed cushions.
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That is anotherdesignflaw.
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The seconddesignflawof the stirrup affects the health of the human foot.
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It was revealed that the cause of the breach was adesignflawin the submarine itself.
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Some saw adesignflawin the placement of retail and office entrances on the same side of the building.
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Another majordesignflawwith the bridge was not fixed.
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A court of inquiry found that the loss was due to a knowndesignflawidentified in tank testing.
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Thisdesignflawcould easily be solved by installing a race intake manifold that sported two or three two-barrel carburetors, as in stock car racing.
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If a game frequently admits lame-duck scenarios, this is considered a severedesignflaw.
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The class had adesignflawin that the riveted external fuel tanks leaked, leaving an oil trail on the surface.
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Subsequent investigations found that a combination of human error and adesignflawin a mechanical safety device caused the accident.
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