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Adapt vs Rectify - What's the difference?

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Adapt is a related term of rectify.


In lang=en terms the difference between adapt and rectify

is that adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted while rectify is to correct or amend something.

As verbs the difference between adapt and rectify

is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while rectify is to correct or amend something.

As an adjective adapt

is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

adapt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
  • To change oneself so as to be adapted.
  • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
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    rectify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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.
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    Derived terms

    * rectifiable * rectifiably * rectification * rectifier * rectified spirit

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