Mend vs. Rectify — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mend and Rectify
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Definitions
Mend
To make repairs or restoration to; fix.
Rectify
Rectify is an American television drama series exploring the life of a man after he is released from prison after nearly 20 years on death row following a wrongful conviction. It was created by Ray McKinnon and is the first original series from SundanceTV. It stars Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron, Adelaide Clemens, Clayne Crawford, and Luke Kirby, and premiered on April 22, 2013, with a first season run of six episodes.A second season of ten episodes, premiered on June 19, 2014.
Mend
To reform or correct
Mend one's ways.
Rectify
To set right; correct
Rectified the situation by adding more chairs so that more people could sit.
Mend
To improve in health or condition
The patient is mending well.
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Rectify
To correct by calculation or adjustment
Rectified the mathematical error.
Mend
To heal
The bone mended in a month.
Rectify
(Chemistry) To refine or purify, especially by distillation.
Mend
To make repairs or corrections.
Rectify
(Electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
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Mend
The act of mending
Did a neat mend on the sock.
Rectify
To adjust (the proof of alcoholic beverages) by adding water or other liquids.
Mend
A mended place
You can't tell where the mend is.
Rectify
To heal (an organ or part of the body).
Mend
A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
Rectify
(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
Mend
The act of repairing or recovering.
My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.
Rectify
(transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
To rectify the crisis
Mend
(transitive) To repair (something that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or otherwise damaged)
My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.
When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.
Rectify
To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
Mend
(transitive) To put in a better state; to set right; to reform;
Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
My broken heart was mended.
Rectify
(transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
Mend
To quicken
Rectify
To correct (someone who is mistaken).
Mend
(transitive) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
Rectify
To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
Mend
(intransitive) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
Rectify
To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
Mend
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
Rectify
To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
Mend
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
Rectify
(transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
Mend
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
You mend the jewel by the wearing it.
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.
Mend
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved; to recover; to heal.
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.
Mend
Sewing or darning that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment);
Her stockings had several mends
Rectify
To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
Mend
The act of putting something in working order again
Rectify
Math: determine the length of;
Rectify a curve
Mend
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;
She repaired her TV set
Repair my shoes please
Rectify
Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities;
Refine sugar
Mend
Heal or recover;
My broken leg is mending
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
