Rectify vs Accommodate - What's the difference?
rectify | accommodate |
To correct or amend something.
(chemistry) To purify or refine, especially by distillation.
(electronics) To convert alternating current into direct current.
(transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
(transitive) To adjust (a globe) in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
(transitive, often, reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
To give consideration to; to allow for.
To contain comfortably; to have space for.
(rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
(label) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
* John Tillotson
In lang=en terms the difference between rectify and accommodate
is that rectify is to correct or amend something while accommodate is to contain comfortably; to have space for.As verbs the difference between rectify and accommodate
is that rectify is to correct or amend something while accommodate is (transitive|often|reflexive) to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.As an adjective accommodate is
(label) suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.rectify
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Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* rectifiable * rectifiably * rectification * rectifier * rectified spiritAnagrams
*accommodate
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Verb
(accommodat)- They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -
Synonyms
* suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.Antonyms
* (obsolete) discommodateAdjective
(en adjective)- God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of worship, and to impose it upon them as that which was most proper and agreeable to him; but that he condescended to it as most accommodate to their present state and inclination.
