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"roman": "dorost kardan",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "درست کردن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poprawiać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poprawić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "retificar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "rectifica"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "corecta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispravljátʹ",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "исправля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "isprávitʹ",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "испра́вить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "rectificar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "subsanar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "korrigera"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to correct or amend something",
"word": "düzeltmek"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to correct someone who is mistaken",
"word": "korjata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to correct someone who is mistaken",
"word": "correggere"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izpravjam",
"sense": "to convert alternating current into direct current",
"word": "изправям"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to convert alternating current into direct current",
"word": "tasasuunnata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to convert alternating current into direct current",
"word": "rettificare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to convert alternating current into direct current",
"word": "raddrizzare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to convert alternating current into direct current",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "prostować"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyprjamljatʹ",
"sense": "to convert alternating current into direct current",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выпрямлять"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to convert alternating current into direct current",
"word": "likrikta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to produce by redistilling with flavourings",
"word": "tislata"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Rectification (geometry)"
],
"word": "rectify"
}
Download raw JSONL data for rectify meaning in English (15.0kB)
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"section": "English",
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"title": "rectify",
"trace": ""
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: transitive, geodesy, historical",
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