RECTIFY (rectified)
Dictionary entry overview: What does rectify mean?
• RECTIFY (verb)
The verb RECTIFY has 6 senses:
1. math: determine the length of
2. reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
3. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
4. set straight or right
5. make right or correct
6. convert into direct current
Familiarity information: RECTIFY used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
• RECTIFY (verb)
Meaning:
Math: determine the length of
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
rectify a curve
Hypernyms (to "rectify" is one way to...):
ascertain; determine; find; find out (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
rectify; refine
Context example:
refine sugar
Hypernyms (to "rectify" is one way to...):
distill; make pure; purify; sublimate (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
reform; reclaim; rectify; regenerate
Context examples:
The Church reformed me / reform your conduct
Hypernyms (to "rectify" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rectify"):
moralise; moralize (improve the morals of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Set straight or right
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
remediate; remedy; amend; repair; rectify
Context examples:
remedy these deficiencies / rectify the inequities in salaries / repair an oversight
Hypernyms (to "rectify" is one way to...):
correct; rectify; right (make right or correct)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make right or correct
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
correct; right; rectify
Context examples:
Correct the mistakes / rectify the calculation
Hypernyms (to "rectify" is one way to...):
change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rectify"):
amend; rectify; remediate; remedy; repair (set straight or right)
debug (locate and correct errors in a computer program code)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Convert into direct current
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
rectify alternating current
Hypernyms (to "rectify" is one way to...):
change; commute; convert; exchange (exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
