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correct 音標拼音: [kɚ'ɛkt] a. 正確的;恰當的,端正的
vt. 糾正,修改;校正,矯正 正確的;恰當的,端正的糾正,修改;校正,矯正 correct正確
correct完全正確 QCcorrect正確 校正 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" [ synonym: { correct}, { right}] [ ant: { incorrect}, { wrong}] 2: socially right or correct; " it isn' t right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; " correct behavior" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { correct}, { right}] 4: correct in opinion or judgment; " time proved him right" [ synonym: { right}, { correct}] [ ant: { wrong}] v 1: make right or correct; " Correct the mistakes"; " rectify the calculation" [ synonym: { correct}, { rectify}, { right}] [ ant: { falsify}] 2: make reparations or amends for; " right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [ synonym: { right}, { compensate}, { redress}, { correct}] [ ant: { wrong}] 3: censure severely; " She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [ synonym: { chastise}, { castigate}, { objurgate}, { chasten}, { correct}] 4: adjust for; " engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { discipline}, { correct}, { sort out}] 6: go down in value; " the stock market corrected"; " prices slumped" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { adjust}, { set}, { correct}] 8: treat a defect; " The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia" 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]
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] Correctible298 Moby Thesaurus words for " correct": Christian, OK, absolute, accepted, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, according to Hoyle, accurate, acknowledged, adapt, adapt to, adjectival, adjust, adjust to, admitted, admonish, adverbial, agree with, all right, ameliorate, amend, annul, appropriate, approved, apt, assimilate to, attentive, attributive, authentic, authoritative, awaken, be guided by, becoming, befitting, being done, bend, berate, better, blame, blue- pencil, break the spell, bring to account, bring to book, burst the bubble, call to account, cancel, canonical, careful, castigate, censure, change, chasten, chastise, chide, chime in with, close, comely, comme il faut, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, condign, conform, conformable, conforming, conjunctive, conscientious, conventional, copulative, correspond, counteract, counterbalance, critical, cure, customary, de rigueur, dead right, deal with, debunk, decent, decorous, delicate, demanding, detailed, disabuse, disappoint, discipline, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, done, due, edit, emend, emendate, enlighten, established, evangelical, exact, exacting, exigent, expose, exquisite, factual, faithful, fall in with, faultless, felicitous, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, fit, fitting, fix, flawless, follow, formal, functional, fussy, gear to, give satisfaction, glossematic, go by, good, good- mannered, grade, grammatic, happy, harmonize, have words with, impeccable, improve, in order, inflict upon, inspired, intransitive, just, just right, kosher, lecture, let down easy, let in on, letter- perfect, linking, literal, make all square, make conform, make good, make over, make right, make up for, mannerly, mark, masthead, meet, mend, meticulous, minute, modify, mold, narrow, natural, neutralize, nice, nominal, normal, normative, nullify, objurgate, observe, of the faith, offset, okay, orthodox, orthodoxical, participial, particular, pay reparations, penalize, perfect, pillory, postpositional, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prepositional, prick the bubble, pronominal, proper, punctilious, punctual, punish, put right, put straight, put to rights, rate, rebuke, received, recense, recognized, recompense, reconcile, rectify, redact, redraft, redress, refined, reform, regulate, religious, remedy, remunerate, repair, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, requite, revamp, reverse, revise, rework, rewrite, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid, rigorous, rub off corners, scold, scriptural, scrupulous, scrutinizing, seemly, set, set down, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, settle, settle with, shape, show up, sound, spank, square accounts, standard, straight, straight- up- and- down, straighten, straighten out, strict, structural, substantive, subtle, suit, suitable, syntactic, tagmemic, take down, take to task, tally with, tell the truth, textual, traditional, traditionalistic, transitive, true, true- blue, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, undistorted, unimpeachable, unspell, upbraid, usual, valid, veracious, verbal, veridical, vigorous, visit upon, wake up, well- behaved, well- chosen, well- expressed, well- mannered, well- put, well- spoken, work over, yield
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