'Rectify' definitions:
Definition of 'rectify'
From: WordNet
verb
Math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve"
verb
Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" [syn: refine, rectify]
verb
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify]
verb
Set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [syn: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend]
verb
Make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" [syn: correct, rectify, right] [ant: falsify]
verb
Convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"
Definition of 'Rectify'
From: GCIDE
- Rectify \Rec"ti*fy\ (-f?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rectified (-f?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Rectifying (-f?`?ng).] [F. rectifier, LL. rectificare; L. rectus right + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Right, and -fy.]
- 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. [1913 Webster]
- I meant to rectify my conscience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Chem.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Com.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- To rectify a globe, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To amend; emend; correct; better; mend; reform; redress; adjust; regulate; improve. See Amend. [1913 Webster] Rectilineal
Synonyms of 'rectify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodate,
- accommodate with,
- accord,
- adapt,
- adapt to,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- agree with,
- ameliorate,
- amend,
- assimilate,
- assimilate to,
- atone,
- attune,
- be guided by,
- bend,
- blue-pencil,
- bolt,
- chime in with,
- clarify,
- clear,
- compensate,
- comply,
- comply with,
- compose,
- conform,
- coordinate,
- correct,
- correspond,
- cover,
- cure,
- cut to,
- decrassify,
- depurate,
- discipline,
- disentangle,
- distill,
- do penance,
- edit,
- edulcorate,
- elute,
- emend,
- emendate,
- equalize,
- essentialize,
- expiate,
- extend,
- extract,
- fall in with,
- fill up,
- filter,
- filtrate,
- fit,
- fix,
- flatten,
- follow,
- gear to,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- go by,
- harmonize,
- homologate,
- homologize,
- improve,
- indemnify,
- key to,
- leach,
- lixiviate,
- make all square,
- make amends,
- make compensation,
- make conform,
- make good,
- make plumb,
- make right,
- make uniform,
- make up for,
- measure,
- meet,
- mend,
- mold,
- observe,
- pay back,
- pay reparations,
- percolate,
- proportion,
- purify,
- put in tune,
- put right,
- put straight,
- put to rights,
- rebuild,
- recense,
- recompense,
- reconcile,
- redact,
- redraft,
- redress,
- refine,
- regulate,
- remedy,
- remunerate,
- repair,
- repay,
- requite,
- retaliate,
- revamp,
- revise,
- rework,
- rewrite,
- right,
- rub off corners,
- screen,
- separate,
- set,
- set right,
- set straight,
- set to rights,
- set up,
- settle,
- shape,
- sieve,
- sift,
- similarize,
- sit up,
- smooth,
- spiritualize,
- square,
- stand up,
- straighten,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- strain,
- sublimate,
- sublime,
- suit,
- sync,
- synchronize,
- tailor,
- tally with,
- trim to,
- true,
- true up,
- try,
- tune,
- unbend,
- uncurl,
- unkink,
- unsnarl,
- winnow,
- work over,
- yield