Word Finder - rectifying

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

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

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

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to rectify the crisis

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To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.

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

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To correct (someone who is mistaken).

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

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To convert (alternating current) into direct current.

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

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

As we have said all along it is about rectifying an anomaly.

The heat of controversy is, however, abating, and during the past thirty or forty years both Catholic and Protestant investigators have been vying with one another in adding to our knowledge and in rectifying old mis takes; while an ever-increasing number of writers pledged to neither party are aiding in developing an idea of the scope and nature of the Reformation which differs radically from the traditional one.

The owner of the flat above has had several sales fall through due to the cost of rectifying frost damaged brickwork.

Yet lawyers increasingly fear that the difficulties of rectifying an injustice are becoming almost insuperable.

This Fellowship was subsequently renewed in 2001, where the focus switched to calcineurin regulation of inwardly rectifying potassium channels.

The risk can be reduced by regularly checking and promptly rectifying defects to electrical wiring and fire alarms.

Rectifying this situation is easy; Aries needs to recognize that others may have their own opinions and, moreover, might take exception when those feelings and opinions are steamrolled over by this hard charging sign.

The investigations on magnetism led to the important practical discovery of a means of rectifying or compensating compass errors in ships.

The operations resulted in re-establishing the confidence of the Confederates in their army which Johnston's retreat from Yorktown had shaken, in adding prestige to President Davis and his government, and in rectifying the popular view of General Lee as a commander which had been based upon his failure to recover West Virginia in the autumn of 1861.

In a small commonplace book, bearing on the seventh page the date of January 1663/1664, there are several articles on angular sections, and the squaring of curves and " crooked lines that may be squared," several calculations about musical notes, geometrical propositions from Francis Vieta and Frans van Schooten, annotations out of Wallis's Arithmetic of Infinities, together with observations on refraction, on the grinding of " spherical optic glasses," on the errors of lenses and the method of rectifying them, and on the extraction of all kinds of roots, particularly those " in affected powers."