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Moral integrity.
🌱The school superintendent was stern and not terribly popular, but no one questioned her moral rectitude. 🌳We associate straightness with honesty, so if we suspect someone is lying we might ask if they're being "straight" with us, and we might call a lawbreaker crooked or label him a crook. Rectitude may sound a little old-fashioned today, but the virtue it represents never really goes out of style. rectify To set right; remedy.
🌱The college is moving to rectify this unfortunate situation before anyone else gets hurt. 🌳We rectify something by straightening it out or making it right. We might rectify an injustice by seeing to it that a wrongly accused person is cleared. An error in a financial record can be rectified by replacing an incorrect number with a correct one. If the error is in our tax return, the Internal Revenue Service will be happy to rectify it for us; we might then have to rectify the impression that we were trying to cheat on our taxes. rectilinear 1、 Moving in or forming a straight line.
2、 Having many straight lines.
🌱After admiring Frank Lloyd Wright's rectilinear buildings for years, the public was astonished by the giant spiral of the Guggenheim Museum. 🌳Rectilinear patterns or constructions are those in which straight lines are strikingly obvious. In geometry, rectilinear usually means "perpendicular"; thus, a rectilinear polygon is a many-sided shape whose angles are all right angles （the footprints of most houses, with their extensions and garages, are good examples）. But rectilinear is particularly used in physics. Rectilinear motion is motion in which the speed remains constant and the path is a straight line; and rectilinear rays, such as light rays, travel in a straight line. directive Something that guides or directs; especially, a general instruction from a high-level body or official.
🌱At the very beginning of the administration, the cabinet secretary had sent out a directive to all border-patrol personnel. 🌳As the definition states, a directive directs. A directive from a school principal might provide guidance about handling holiday celebrations in class. A directive from the Vatican might specify new wording for the Mass in various languages. Even the European Union issues directives to its member countries, which they often ignore.
🌱The school superintendent was stern and not terribly popular, but no one questioned her moral rectitude. 🌳We associate straightness with honesty, so if we suspect someone is lying we might ask if they're being "straight" with us, and we might call a lawbreaker crooked or label him a crook. Rectitude may sound a little old-fashioned today, but the virtue it represents never really goes out of style. rectify To set right; remedy.
🌱The college is moving to rectify this unfortunate situation before anyone else gets hurt. 🌳We rectify something by straightening it out or making it right. We might rectify an injustice by seeing to it that a wrongly accused person is cleared. An error in a financial record can be rectified by replacing an incorrect number with a correct one. If the error is in our tax return, the Internal Revenue Service will be happy to rectify it for us; we might then have to rectify the impression that we were trying to cheat on our taxes. rectilinear 1、 Moving in or forming a straight line.
2、 Having many straight lines.
🌱After admiring Frank Lloyd Wright's rectilinear buildings for years, the public was astonished by the giant spiral of the Guggenheim Museum. 🌳Rectilinear patterns or constructions are those in which straight lines are strikingly obvious. In geometry, rectilinear usually means "perpendicular"; thus, a rectilinear polygon is a many-sided shape whose angles are all right angles （the footprints of most houses, with their extensions and garages, are good examples）. But rectilinear is particularly used in physics. Rectilinear motion is motion in which the speed remains constant and the path is a straight line; and rectilinear rays, such as light rays, travel in a straight line. directive Something that guides or directs; especially, a general instruction from a high-level body or official.
🌱At the very beginning of the administration, the cabinet secretary had sent out a directive to all border-patrol personnel. 🌳As the definition states, a directive directs. A directive from a school principal might provide guidance about handling holiday celebrations in class. A directive from the Vatican might specify new wording for the Mass in various languages. Even the European Union issues directives to its member countries, which they often ignore.
RECT comes from the Latin word rectus, which means "straight" or "right." To correct something is to make it right. A rectangle is a four-sided figure with straight parallel sides. Rectus, short for Latin rectus musculus, may refer to any of several straight muscles, such as those of the abdomen.🌸