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Definition: RECTIFY |
RECTIFYVerb1. Set straight or right. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mathematics | To amend, to set right an error or an omission. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: TO RECTIFY |
| English words defined with "TO RECTIFY": Dephlegmate ♦ Louchettes ♦ remedial. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO RECTIFY": ALIGNER, TYPEWRITER ♦ Brimstone ♦ CHECKROOM CHIEF ♦ director, product assurance, DIRECTOR, QUALITY ASSURANCE ♦ iron-and-steel-work supervisor ♦ steel-erecting pusher, SUPERVISOR, LIVESTOCK-YARD, SUPERVISOR, STRUCTURAL-STEEL ERECTION. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am going to rectify certain inequities (Spider-Man; writing credit: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko) Lordwhatever I've done to piss you offif you could just get me out of this and somehow let me know what it was I promise to rectify the situation (Maverick; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
George Washington | To err is nature, to rectify error is glory. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Japan | The OECD has identified deficiencies in Japan's implementing legislation, which the Government of Japan has committed to rectify. (references) |
Human Rights | Sweden | The official government ombudsmen publicize abuses of state authority and may initiate actions to rectify such abuses. (references) |
Political Economy | HUNGARY | The United States has urged Hungary to rectify this situation at every possible opportunity. (references) |
Political Rights | Ethiopia | In the Somali region prior to the August 2000 elections, thousands of ballots were reprinted to rectify the fact that a female opposition candidate had not been listed despite having met NEB requirements for candidate registration. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nepal | Although the law authorizes labor officers to order employers to rectify unsafe conditions, enforcement of safety standards remains minimal. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | From a desire also to remove the discontents of the Six nations, a settlement mediated at Presque Isle, on Lake Erie, has been suspended, and an agent is now endeavoring to rectify any misconception into which they may have fallen. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "TO RECTIFY": To rectify a globe. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "TO RECTIFY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | revidere (revise), rette (correct). (various references) | |
Dutch | herzien (revise), corrigeren (correct). (various references) | |
French | rectifier (to correct), corriger (to correct). (various references) | |
German | verbessern (ameliorate, better, brighten, brighten up, correct, emend, enhance, improve, pull up, rectify, refine, reform, strengthen, to ameliorate, to correct, to emend, to hone, to improve, to meliorate, to mend, to reform, update, upgrade), richtigstellen (correct, rectify), gleichrichten (commutate, recitify, rectify, to commutate, to recitify), berichtigen (adjust, amend, correct, emend, rectify, regularize, regulate, to amend, to correct, to emend). (various references) | |
Greek | αναθεωρώ (reconsider, review, revise), διορθώνω (amend, correct, emend, fix, mend, put right, rectify, refit, repair, to correct, touch up). (various references) | |
Hungarian | többszörösen lepárol, síkba fejt, rektifikál, orvosol (physic, physicked, redress, remedy, to help, to make good, to physic, to redress), lepárol (decoct, pan, to boil down, to carbozine, to extract, to pan, to still), kiigazít (rectify, to correct, to realign, to true, to true up), kiegyenesít (align, conk, erect, straighten, to even, to hone, to set aright, to straighten, unbend), képet transzformál, helyesbít (adjust, correct, rectify, to amend, to correct), egyenirányít. (various references) | |
Italian | rivedere (audit, correct, edit, look over, look over again, meet again, overhaul, review, revise, see again, vet), rettificare (amend, correct, grind, rectify). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay ectifyray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reequilibrar a situação (to rectify the situation), rectificar as decisões quando não sejam conformes aos critérios (to rectify any decisions which do not conform to the criteria), não dar provimento ao recurso (not to rectify its decision). (various references) | |
Spanish | reequilibrar la situación (to rectify the situation), rectificar las decisiones cuando no concuerden con dichos criterios (to rectify any decisions which do not conform to the criteria), desestimar el recurso (not to rectify its decision). (various references) | |
Swedish | återställa jämvikten (to rectify the situation), ändra beslut...,om dessa beslut inte överensstämmer med kriterierna (to rectify any decisions which do not conform to the criteria). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-o-r-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ferocity. | |
-2 letters: certify, cottier, rectify. | |
-3 letters: cotter, erotic, ferity, fitter, fretty, titfer, tricot, yttric. | |
-4 letters: citer, coyer, croft, fetor, fiery, force, forte, forty, foyer, fritt, fytte, octet, ofter, otter, recti, recto, refit, reify, rotte, titer, titre, toric, torte, toter, toyer, trice, trite. | |
-5 letters: cero, cire, cite, city, coft, coif, coir, core, corf, cory, cote, etic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-o-r-t-t-y" | |
+4 letters: certificatory, confraternity. | |
+5 letters: diffractometry. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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