[
US
/kɝˈɛkt/
]
[ UK /kəɹˈɛkt/ ]
[ UK /kəɹˈɛkt/ ]
VERB
-
make reparations or amends for
right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust -
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
correct the alignment of the front wheels
Adjust the clock, please -
make right or correct
Correct the mistakes
rectify the calculation -
censure severely
She chastised him for his insensitive remarks -
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently -
go down in value
prices slumped
the stock market corrected -
treat a defect
The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia -
adjust for
engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
ADJECTIVE
-
free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
took the right road
the right decision
the correct answer
the correct version
the right answer -
socially right or correct
correct behavior
it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye -
in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
what's the right word for this?
the right way to open oysters -
correct in opinion or judgment
time proved him right
How To Use correct In A Sentence
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
- In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
- You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
- As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
- Other procedures available are otoplasty (ear correction), rhinoplasty, liposculpture, penile enhancement and face, neck and brow lifts to name but a few.
- Although the complex has only been open for a couple of months both men are happy they have managed to get the mix of activities correct.
- Retrieval before additions All records will be in their correct places and the file will be physically as well as logically in sequence.
- It checks bank account numbers before accepting them and will detect many common transcription errors, including incorrectly entered and transposed characters. Times, Sunday Times
- Advertisers had argued that to ban the advertisements would be overzealous political correctness.
- Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel. Orrologion
