Difference between Flaws and Defect

FLAWS vs DEFECT: NOUN

A failing or deficiency
An imperfection in a bodily system
An imperfection in a device or machine
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
An imperfection or lack that causes inadequacy or failure; a shortcoming or deficiency. : blemish.
Want or lack of anything; especially, the lack of something which is essential to perfection or completeness; a fault; a blemish; an imperfection: as, a defect in timber; a defect in the organs of hearing or seeing; a defect of memory or judgment.
Synonyms Deficiency, lack, insufficiency, failure, error, flaw.
Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish
A fault or malfunction.
An imperfection in an object or machine

Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty.

Problems, Failures, Glitches, Lapses, Defects, Imperfections, Inconsistencies, Faults, Failings, Weaknesses, Deficiencies, Shortcomings, Blemish, Fault, Defect

Malformation, Irregularity, Failure, Deficiencies, Deficiency, Deformity, Malfunction, Faulty, Abnormality, Defective, Desert, Blemish, Fault, Shortcoming, Flaw

Drawbacks, Mistakes, Problems, Failures, Glitches, Lapses, Inconsistencies, Faults, Failings, Weaknesses, Deficiencies, Shortcomings, Blemish, Fault, Defect

Imperfection, Glitch, Malformation, Failure, Deficiencies, Deficiency, Deformity, Faulty, Abnormality, Defective, Desert, Blemish, Fault, Shortcoming, Flaw

The procedures for processing reported security flaws shall ensure that any reported flaws are corrected and the correction issued to TOE users.
It recognizes that society has flaws and that rhetoric must work with the flaws of society.
The false consensus effect and overconfidence: Flaws in judgment, or flaws in how we study judgment?
They might have serious character flaws that catch their victims in the effects of their flaws.
We will always have our flaws, but like anything, the most beauty comes when there are some flaws.
Everyone has flaws, but for managers, it is important to work on flaws rather than explain them away.
As for current flaws in my personality I guess have many stereotypical flaws.
Errors must be accepted as evidence of systems flaws, not character flaws.
Individual flaws are very often related to the flaws of society.
Character Flaws Flaws are like the flip side of feats.

The defect arose while Brian owned Tanneracre, and so even a special warranty deed would cover that defect.
Defect Priority is used to determine the order in which a defect should be handled.
Defect age is the time lapse between identification and closure of a defect.
Finite lateral defect size makes defect visualization in thermography much more complicated.
It is the time between defect detection and defect closure.
Could your minor building defect now be a major defect?
What type of defect is this individual defect?
Such records mustdocument the nature of the defect, how and when the defect was discoveredand any remedial action taken in response to the defect.
Maintained the defect tracking process; logged, assign, track the defect and test the defect solution.
Knowledge on Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking and complete Defect Life cycle.