Ratify vs. Rectify — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ratify and Rectify
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Ratify
To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm
The Senate ratified the treaty.
Rectify
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Ratify
(transitive) To give formal consent to; make officially valid, sign off on.
They ratified the treaty.
Rectify
To set right; correct
Rectified the situation by adding more chairs so that more people could sit.
Ratify
To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination.
It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle.
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Rectify
To correct by calculation or adjustment
Rectified the mathematical error.
Ratify
Approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation;
All parties ratified the peace treaty
Have you signed your contract yet?
Rectify
(Chemistry) To refine or purify, especially by distillation.
Rectify
(Electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
Rectify
To adjust (the proof of alcoholic beverages) by adding water or other liquids.
Rectify
To heal (an organ or part of the body).
Rectify
(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
Rectify
(transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
To rectify the crisis
Rectify
To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
Rectify
(transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
Rectify
To correct (someone who is mistaken).
Rectify
To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
Rectify
To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
Rectify
To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
Rectify
(transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
Rectify
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.
I meant to rectify my conscience.
This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified.
Rectify
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.
Rectify
To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
Rectify
Math: determine the length of;
Rectify a curve
Rectify
Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities;
Refine sugar
Rectify
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one;
The Church reformed me
Reform your conduct
Rectify
Set straight or right;
Remedy these deficiencies
Rectify the inequities in salaries
Repair an oversight
Rectify
Make right or correct;
Correct the mistakes
Rectify the calculation
Rectify
Convert into direct current;
Rectify alternating current
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