Correct \Cor*rect"\ (k[^o]r*r[e^]kt"), a. [L. correctus, p. p.
of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to
lead straight: cf. F. correct. See Regular, Right, and
cf. Escort.]
Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth,
rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or
imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct
views.
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Always use the most correct editions. --Felton.
Syn: Accurate; right, exact; precise; regular; faultless. See
Accurate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Correct \Cor*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corrected; p. pr. &
vb. n. Correcting.]
1. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice,
or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or
principles.
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This is a defect in the first make of some men's
minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
--T. Burnet.
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2. To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend;
to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark
upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the
type the changes so marked).
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3. To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in
morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from
moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child
should be corrected for lying.
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My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct
him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his
knees he would be even with me. --Shak.
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4. To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of
another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to
correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline
preparations.
Syn: To amend; rectify; emend; reform; improve; chastise;
punish; discipline; chasten. See Amend.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
correct
adj 1: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;
"the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the
right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right
decision" [syn: right] [ant: incorrect, incorrect]
2: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the
party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: right]
3: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
"what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open
oysters" [syn: right]
4: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
[syn: right] [ant: wrong]
v 1: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the
calculation" [syn: rectify, right] [ant: falsify]
2: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, redress]
[ant: wrong]
3: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive
remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten]
4: adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the
effects or air resistance" [syn: compensate, counterbalance,
even out, even off, even up]
5: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The
teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn: discipline,
sort out]
6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices
slumped" [syn: decline, slump]
7: alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a
standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the
alignment of the front wheels" [syn: adjust, set]
8: treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his
myopia"
WordNet (r) 2.0
298 Moby Thesaurus words for "correct":
Christian, OK, absolute, accepted, accommodate, accommodate with,
accord, according to Hoyle, accurate, acknowledged, adapt,
adapt to, adjectival, adjust, adjust to, admitted, admonish,
adverbial, agree with, all right, ameliorate, amend, annul,
appropriate, approved, apt, assimilate to, attentive, attributive,
authentic, authoritative, awaken, be guided by, becoming,
befitting, being done, bend, berate, better, blame, blue-pencil,
break the spell, bring to account, bring to book, burst the bubble,
call to account, cancel, canonical, careful, castigate, censure,
change, chasten, chastise, chide, chime in with, close, comely,
comme il faut, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, condign,
conform, conformable, conforming, conjunctive, conscientious,
conventional, copulative, correspond, counteract, counterbalance,
critical, cure, customary, de rigueur, dead right, deal with,
debunk, decent, decorous, delicate, demanding, detailed, disabuse,
disappoint, discipline, disenchant, disillude, disillusion,
disillusionize, done, due, edit, emend, emendate, enlighten,
established, evangelical, exact, exacting, exigent, expose,
exquisite, factual, faithful, fall in with, faultless, felicitous,
fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, fit, fitting, fix,
flawless, follow, formal, functional, fussy, gear to,
give satisfaction, glossematic, go by, good, good-mannered, grade,
grammatic, happy, harmonize, have words with, impeccable, improve,
in order, inflict upon, inspired, intransitive, just, just right,
kosher, lecture, let down easy, let in on, letter-perfect, linking,
literal, make all square, make conform, make good, make over,
make right, make up for, mannerly, mark, masthead, meet, mend,
meticulous, minute, modify, mold, narrow, natural, neutralize,
nice, nominal, normal, normative, nullify, objurgate, observe,
of the faith, offset, okay, orthodox, orthodoxical, participial,
particular, pay reparations, penalize, perfect, pillory,
postpositional, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic,
prepositional, prick the bubble, pronominal, proper, punctilious,
punctual, punish, put right, put straight, put to rights, rate,
rebuke, received, recense, recognized, recompense, reconcile,
rectify, redact, redraft, redress, refined, reform, regulate,
religious, remedy, remunerate, repair, reprehend, reprimand,
reprove, requite, revamp, reverse, revise, rework, rewrite, right,
right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid, rigorous,
rub off corners, scold, scriptural, scrupulous, scrutinizing,
seemly, set, set down, set right, set straight, set to rights,
set up, settle, settle with, shape, show up, sound, spank,
square accounts, standard, straight, straight-up-and-down,
straighten, straighten out, strict, structural, substantive,
subtle, suit, suitable, syntactic, tagmemic, take down,
take to task, tally with, tell the truth, textual, traditional,
traditionalistic, transitive, true, true-blue, unblindfold,
uncharm, undeceive, undistorted, unimpeachable, unspell, upbraid,
usual, valid, veracious, verbal, veridical, vigorous, visit upon,
wake up, well-behaved, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-mannered,
well-put, well-spoken, work over, yield
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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