CORRECT
\kəɹˈɛkt], \kəɹˈɛkt], \k_ə_ɹ_ˈɛ_k_t]\
Definitions of CORRECT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
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correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
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in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
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treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
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alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
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adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
By Princeton University
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censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
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correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
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in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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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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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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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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.
By Oddity Software
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To set straight; to make right; as, to correct an error, to correct proof; punish for faults; amend.
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Exact; accurate; free from error; meeting a standard of morals, taste, manners, etc.
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Correctly.
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Correctness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Correctly.
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Correctness.
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To make right: to remove faults: to punish: to counter balance.
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Made right or straight: free from faults: true.
By Daniel Lyons
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Correctly.
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Correctness.
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To make right; rectify; remedy; set right; punish.
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Free from fault or mistake; true, right, or proper; accurate.
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Correctable, correctible.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Conformable to truth or some standard; free from error; accurate.
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To make right; to remove faults or errors; to punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to obviate by counteracting.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
