Definition of correct
- a. - 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.
- v. t. - To make right; to bring to the standard of truth,
justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or
principles.
- 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).
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.