Rectify

What do we mean by rectify?

To set right; correct: synonym: correct. transitive verb

To correct by calculation or adjustment. transitive verb

To refine or purify, especially by distillation. transitive verb

To convert (alternating current) into direct current. transitive verb

To adjust (the proof of alcoholic beverages) by adding water or other liquids. transitive verb

To make right or straight; correct when wrong, erroneous, or false; amend: as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses: sometimes applied to persons.

Specifically In distilling:

To remove impurities from (an alcoholic distillate) and raise to a required proof or strength by repeated distillation.

Hence— To bring (a. spirit) by repeated distillation to the strength required, and at the same time to impart to it the desired flavor. See rectifier.

In chemical manuf. and in pharmacy:

To separate impurities from (a crystalline body) by dissolving and recrystallizing it, sometimes repeatedly, and sometimes also with intermediate washing of the crystals.

To raise (a liquid) to a prescribed strength by extraction of some part of its liquid components.

To remove impurities from (solutions) by filtering them through substances absorbent of dissolved impurities, but non-absorbent of, and chemically inactive upon, the substance to be purified. Of such materials bone-black is a typical example, especially in sugar-refining

To purify by one or more resublimations.

In mathematics, to determine the length of (a curve, or a part of a curve) included between two limits.

In the use of the globes, to place (a globe) in such a position that the solution of a given problem may be effected with it.

Synonyms Improve, Better, etc. (see amend), redress, adjust, regulate.

In electricity, to change (an alternating electric current) into a direct current by redirecting the successively opposite impulses of the alternating current so as to flow in the same direction. See rectifier .

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend transitive verb

To heal (an organ or part of the body).

To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.

To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).

To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.

To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).

To correct (someone who is mistaken).

(geodesy) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.

To convert (alternating current) into direct current.

To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.

To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.

(v., tr./intr.) 1. To correct, make right. 2. To anally invade another. Urban Dictionary

To correct somebody who is clearly talking out of his arse. Urban Dictionary

To convert alternating current to direct current by means of a semiconductive material or a vacuum tube. Urban Dictionary

The inverse of the very popular and entertaining Shocker. e.g. 2 in the stink, 1 in the pink; two in the ass one in the grass; two in the butt one in the slut; two in the boot, one in the koot; goin to town with two in the brown, etc. Urban Dictionary

Someone who always tries to make things right between people. Urban Dictionary

To fix something by shoving it way up your rectum. Urban Dictionary

The act of becoming erect in an unusual manner. Urban Dictionary

When the process of recting goes wrong (usualy concerned with rookies). the rectifier must then step in to control the situation and rectify the runt. essentialy, the rectifier rectifies a careless rect of a runt so that it is runtable. Urban Dictionary

Immediatal rectafied stench A mix between immediate,rectum, and stench Meaning when a person farts their fart will smell immediatly and it will smell like shit Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to rectify:
rectify.

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possible, correct.

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