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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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: correct, right] [ant: incorrect, wrong]
    2: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party
       without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: correct,
       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: correct, right]
    4: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right" [syn:
       right, correct] [ant: wrong]
    v 1: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the
         calculation" [syn: correct, rectify, right] [ant:
         falsify]
    2: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
       victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate,
       redress, correct] [ant: wrong]
    3: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive
       remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate,
       chasten, correct]
    4: adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or
       air resistance" [syn: compensate, counterbalance,
       correct, make up, 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, correct, sort out]
    6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices
       slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct]
    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, correct]
    8: treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his
       myopia"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

         Always use the most correct editions.    --Felton.

   Syn: Accurate; right, exact; precise; regular; faultless. See
        Accurate.
        [1913 Webster]

3. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

            This is a defect in the first make of some men's
            minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
                                                  --T. Burnet.
      [1913 Webster]

   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).
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

            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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
        [1913 Webster] Correctible

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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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