Rectify vs Remedy - What's the difference?
rectify | remedy |
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.
Something that corrects or counteracts.
(legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To provide or serve as a remedy for.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 27.
Remedy is a synonym of rectify.
In transitive terms the difference between rectify and remedy
is that rectify is to correct or amend something while remedy is to provide or serve as a remedy for.As a noun remedy is
something that corrects or counteracts.rectify
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Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* rectifiable * rectifiably * rectification * rectifier * rectified spiritAnagrams
*remedy
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(wikipedia remedy)Noun
(remedies)- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
Derived terms
* remedilessVerb
- Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,