RECTIFY (rectified)

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Irregular inflected form: 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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rectify    ... he / she / it rectifies   
Past simple: rectified   
Past participle: rectified   
-ing form: rectifying   

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

rectification (determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve)

Sense 2

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

Derivation:

rectification ((chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation)

Sense 3

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:

reclaim; rectify; reform; regenerate

Context example:

reform your conduct

Hypernyms (to "rectify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

reform; see the light; straighten out (change for the better)

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

Derivation:

rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Set straight or right

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

amend; rectify; remediate; remedy; repair

Context example:

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

Derivation:

rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

rectifier (a person who corrects or sets right)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make right or correct

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

correct; rectify; right

Context example:

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

Derivation:

rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

Sense 6

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

Derivation:

rectification (the conversion of alternating current to direct current)

 Context examples 

There is a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Encoded by human CLCA2 Gene (similar to CLCA1), the 943-amino acid Calcium-Activated Chloride Channel-2 (CLCA Family) is expressed in trachea, lung, and mammary gland and displays outward rectifying anion conductance.

(Calcium-Activated Chloride Channel-2, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, dextropropoxyphene closes N-type voltage-gated calcium channels and opens calcium-dependent inwardly rectifying potassium channels.

(Dextropropoxyphene Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

This explanation will serve to rectify mistakes which may already have been made, and to prevent future errors.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In addition, oxycodone closes N-type voltage-gated calcium channels and opens G-protein-coupled inwardly rectifying potassium channels resulting in hyperpolarization and reduction of neuronal excitability.

(Oxycodone, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, morphine closes N-type voltage-gated calcium channels and opens calcium-dependent inwardly rectifying potassium channels, which results in hyperpolarization of neuronal membranes and a reduction in neuronal excitability, and subsequently, analgesia and sedation.

(Morphine Sulfate Sustained-Release Tablet, NCI Thesaurus)

Here is some great misapprehension which must be rectified.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In addition, buprenorphine closes N-type voltage-gated calcium channels and opens calcium-dependent inwardly rectifying potassium channels, resulting in hyperpolarization, reduced neuronal excitability, analgesia and sedation.

(Buprenorphine Transdermal Matrix Patch, NCI Thesaurus)

The team calls its device an infrared rectenna, a portmanteau of rectifying antenna.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Again Maud rectified the twist with the watch-tackle, and again she lowered away from the windlass.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)