306. Rectify - Semi Formal English - IELTS Vocabualry - Rectify / Rectification

Rectify : (잘못 된 것을)바로잡다, 시정하다, 고치다, 개정하다, 수정하다, (전기)정류하다, (화학)정류하다

Rectification : 개정, 교정, 수정, 조정, (화학)정류, (전기)정류

Rectifier : 정류기, 정류관, 개정자, 수정자

 

1)

it means to make something correct

to rectify, to make something right

to alter something

rectify this problem

I need to rectify some errors in the text book before the book is printed

I rectified a mistake

there are some mistakes that it's impossible to rectify  

to put right

to sort out

the mistake that you make now may not be rectifiable in the future

to correct something by removing errors, removing mistakes

government needs to find a way to rectify this crisis to fix an undesirable state of affairs

the rectification of errors

to set right problem

to amend

to rectify a wrong

to rectify damages

to correct

to remedy

to reform

 

2)

you can also use, to rectify or a rectifier in electricity and electronics

an alternating current, an ac current into dc current

that's what a rectifier does to ractify a current as well

 

3)

in chemistry, to purify something by repeated distillation

you distill again and again, that is how you rectify it

you make it more and more pure

 

 

Formality : 6

 

 

 

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