Definition of correct

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Correct (v. t.) 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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Grey :: Grey (a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).
Right :: Right (a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done..
Right :: Right (a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
Met- :: Met- () A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely..
Orthography :: Orthography (n.) The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious..
Orthoscopic :: Orthoscopic (a.) Giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece..
Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles..
Incorrect :: Incorrect (a.) Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty..
Correctable :: Correctable (a.) Capable of being corrected.
Correctional :: Correctional (a.) Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution..
Cacography :: Cacography (n.) Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.
#NAME? :: -ive () An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive..
Drum :: Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane..
Best :: Best (superl.) Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself..
Chastened :: Chastened (a.) Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.
Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
Remedy :: Remedy (n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
Interlining :: Interlining (n.) Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.
Branks :: Branks (n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold..
Approximate :: Approximate (a.) Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values..
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