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Definition: RECTIFYING |
RECTIFYINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Rectify |
Date "RECTIFYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Crosswords: RECTIFYING |
| English words defined with "RECTIFYING": Alcoholization ♦ p-n junction ♦ rectifying tube, rectifying valve. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RECTIFYING": cat's whisker, constructive approach, correcting entry ♦ diametric rectifier circuit, distilling column ♦ fractionating and rectifying plant ♦ PYRIDINE OPERATOR, pyridine-recovery operator ♦ rectifying column, rectifying device ♦ selenium rectifier. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rectifying camera used to make one negative from composite nine-lens photographs.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry, archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry, Benedict of Rochester, bishops; of Master Pandulf, subdeacon and member of the household of our lord the Pope, of brother Aymeric (master of the Knights of the Temple in England), and of the illustrious men William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William, earl of Salisbury, William, earl of Warenne, William, earl of Arundel, Alan of Galloway (constable of Scotland), Waren Fitz Gerold, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert De Burgh (seneschal of Poitou), Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d'Aubigny, Robert of Roppesley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and others, our liegemen. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Economic History | Spain | Although structural reform packages aimed at rectifying these problems were passed in both 1996 and 1997, reform is far from complete. (references) |
Women | Turkmenistan | The Government does not acknowledge that women suffer discrimination, and therefore has no specific program for rectifying women's disadvantaged position in society. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RECTIFYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "RECTIFYING" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 92.59% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "RECTIFYING": fractionating and rectifying plant ♦ rectifying column ♦ rectifying tube ♦ rectifying valve. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "RECTIFYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 矫正 (Corrective, rectified, rectify, remedial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rektifikationskolonne (analyser, fractionating column, rectifying column), modstrømstårn (fractionating column, rectifying column), modstrømskolonne (fractionating column, rectifying column), fraktionerings-og rektifikationsanlaeg (fractionating and rectifying plant), ensretter (rectifier, rectifying section). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rectificeerkolom (fractionating column, rectifier, rectifying column, rectifying section), toestel voor gefractioneerde distillatie en voor rectificatie (fractionating and rectifying plant), gelijkrichter (rectifier, rectifying section). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rektifiointikolonni (fractionating column, rectifying column), väkevöimiskolonni (fractionating column, rectifying column). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rectifiant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verbessernd (ameliorating, emending, improving, meliorating, mending), Gleichrichtung (demodulation, detection, rectification), gleichrichtend (commutating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συσκευή κλασματικής απόσταξης και διύλισης (fractionating and rectifying plant), στήλη διύλισης (fractionating column, rectifying column). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | többszörös lepárlás, rektifikálás (rectification), rektifikáció (rectification), kiigazítás (correction, rectification), kiegyenesítés (alignment, honing, rectification), képtranszformálás (rectification), helyesbítés (amendment, correction, corrigendum, rectification, spot), frakcionálás, egyenirányítás (rectification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rettificatore (doubler, rectifier, rectifying section), colonna di rettificazione (fractionating column, rectifying column), apparecchio di distillazione frazionata e di rettificazione (fractionating and rectifying plant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stashoon jeeree (rectifying station). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ectifyingray rectificador (flatter, fractionating column, rectifier, rectifying column, stoner), coluna rectificadora (fractionating column, rectifying column), aparelho de destilação fraccionada ou de rectificação (fractionating and rectifying plant). (various references) исправлять (amend, amending, correct, emend, fix, mend, re establish, readjust, reclaim, rectify, redeem, redress, red-short, remedy, repair, retrieve, revise). (various references) columna rectificadora (fractionating column, rectifying column), aparato de destilacion fraccionada y de rectificacion (fractionating and rectifying plant). (various references) rektifikator (fractionating column, rectifier, rectifying column), rektifikationskolonn (analyser, fractionating column, rectifying column), rektifieringskolonn (fractionating column, rectifying column), likriktare (rectifier, rectifying section). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"RECTIFYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preachifying, recrifying, rectifiant, restaffing, restiffening. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RECTIFYING" (pronounced re"ktufī'ing) |
| 6 | -t u f ī' i ng | certifying, fortifying, gratifying, identifying, justifying, mystifying, notifying, quantifying, ratifying, stultifying, testifying. |
| 5 | -u f ī' i ng | amplifying, clarifying, classifying, codifying, disqualifying, diversifying, edifying, electrifying, exemplifying, falsifying, gentrifying, glorifying, horrifying, intensifying, magnifying, modifying, mummifying, nullifying, oversimplifying, purifying, qualifying, reclassifying, signifying, simplifying, solidifying, specifying, terrifying, unifying, verifying. |
| 4 | -f ī' i ng | satisfying, unsatisfying. |
| 3 | -ī' i ng | multiplying, occupying, outlying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: certifying. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-g-i-i-n-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: gentrify, reciting, reifying. | |
-3 letters: certify, citrine, crinite, igniter, inciter, neritic, niftier, nigrify, nitrify, rectify, retying, rifting, tiering, tricing. | |
-4 letters: cering, citify, citing, citrin, cretin, cringe, crying, cygnet, engirt, ferity, feting, finery, finger, finite, firing, fringe, fringy, frying, gentry, ignify, ignite, incite, infect, irenic, nicety, nitery, nitric, ricing, tieing, tinier, tiring, trying, tyring. | |
-5 letters: citer, entry, eying, feign, feint, ferny, ficin, fiery, finer, genic, genii, grief, grift, icier, icing, inert, infer, inter, iring, nicer, nifty, niter, nitre, recti, refit, reify, reign, renig, ricin, tiger, tinge, trice, trine, tying, yince. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-g-i-i-n-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: decertifying, electrifying, recertifying. | |
+3 letters: precertifying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 43 54 49 46 59 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. - .. ..-. -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01000110 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E C T I F Y I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0043 0054 0049 0046 0059 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52393754434059434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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