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.

Verb

(en verb)

(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

(of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.

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(of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

To associate.

To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.