Rectify

['rektɪfaɪ] or ['rɛktɪfaɪ]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) convert into direct current; 'rectify alternating current'.

(verb.) set straight or right; 'remedy these deficiencies'; 'rectify the inequities in salaries'; 'repair an oversight'.

(verb.) math: determine the length of; 'rectify a curve'.

安娜贝尔整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.

錄入:米尔顿

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Correct, redress, mend, reform, amend, set right, make right.[2]. (Chem.) Refine, purify.

手打:梅尔瓦

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Straighten, correct, a_need, better, adjust, emend, reform, redress, regulate,rearrange, remodel

ANT:Pervert, corrupt, derange, disorder, distort

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解釋/意思:

v.t. to make straight or right: to adjust: to correct or redress: to purify by repeated crystallisation or sublimation or by distillations: (math.) to determine the length of a curve included between two limits: to prepare a sun-dial for an observation:—pa.t. and pa.p. rec′tified.—adj. Rectifī′able that may be rectified or set right.—ns. Rectificā′tion the act of rectifying or setting right: the process of refining any substance by repeated distillation: rectification of a globe its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem; Rec′tifier one who corrects: one who refines a substance by repeated distillation.—Rectify the course of a vessel to determine its true course from indications of the ship's compass and allowing for magnetic variations &c.; Rectify the globe to bring the sun's place in the ecliptic on a globe to the brass meridian.

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