rectify
pronunciation
How to pronounce rectify in British English:
UK [ˈrektɪfaɪ]
How to pronounce rectify in American English:
US [ˈrektɪfaɪ]
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- Verb:
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- reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- set straight or right
- make right or correct
- convert into direct current
Word Origin
- rectify (v.)
- c. 1400, from Old French rectifier, literally "to make straight" (14c.), from Late Latin rectificare "make right," from Latin rectus "straight" (see right (adj.1)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Related: Rectified; rectifying.
Example
- 1. Value-recoverystrategies are designed to rectify a lapse in service delivery .
- 2. I wanted to do what I could to rectify the inequity .
- 3. Mr osborne should rectify that .
- 4. Microsoft is expected to rectify that shortcoming with windows 8 , introducing an app store along with the product .
- 5. What is needed are smaller rectifiers which would , by very dint of their size , rectify current of an appropriate frequency .