correct
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈɹɛkt/
correct
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
- (free from error) right
- (with good manners) well-mannered, well behaved
- (without error) incorrect, inaccurate
- (with good manners) uncouth
- French: correct
- German: korrekt, richtig, einwandfrei
- Italian: corretto, esatto
- Portuguese: correto, certo
- Russian: пра́вильный
- Spanish: correcto
- German: einwandfrei, ordnungsgemäß, zutreffend
- Italian: corretto, ineccepibile
- Portuguese: comportado, educado
- Russian: воспи́танный
- (India) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonyms: OK
correct (corrects, present participle correcting; past and past participle corrected)
- (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, gbooks :
- Her millions of adoring fans had yet to hear her speak, and when she finally did, she sounded more like a sailor than a starlet, spewing a profanity-laced, G-dropping Brooklynese that no amount of dialect coaching could correct.
- The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, gbooks :
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- It's rude to correct your parents.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
- See also Thesaurus:repair
- French: corriger
- German: ausbessern, korrigieren, richtigstellen, berichtigen, nachregeln Tech.
- Italian: correggere, emendare, rettificare
- Portuguese: corrigir
- Russian: исправля́ть
- Spanish: corregir
- Italian: correggere, precisare, puntualizzare
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